Cretans always lie. --Epimenides the Cretan Never put off till tomorrow what someone else might do today. --KJA DOOR TO DOOR II (December 1972) octodecillion, n., pl. -lions (as after a numeral) -lion, adj. --n. 1. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. and France by a one followed by 57 zeros, and in Great Britain and Germany by a one followed by 108 zeros. -. Ww Rando} ictio: of the Eanguage if one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. --Oscar Wilde lish The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. --Vonnegut's Bokonon, Cat's Cradle You can take an ass around the world and it won't become a horse. --G. B, shaw I€ we can build a world in which rage doesn't pay off, it will be a world in which people don't fly into a rage at the slightest annoyance, --Skinner A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. “-Oscar Wilde The view of illiterates on art are unaccountable. --Oscar Wilde No one of intelligence resents the inevitable. --A. C. Clarke He coined a new word for sylvia's disease, "Samaritrophia," which he said meant, “hysterical indifference to the troubles of those less fortunate than oneself." -~Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. -~Ortega y Gasset The skeptic differs from the dogmatic in that the latter believes in only one thing, and the former in many, in almost everything, --~ortega y Gasset it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life. --ortega y Gasset The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, ego- tistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. --S, MaughamDOOR TO DOOR III: 4 Any writer who tells you he's in a hurry to get to that desk is a faker, not a writer. ~-S. J. Perelman DOOR TO DOOR Iv (Summer''73) KIA The disappointing thing about life is That ‘courage is the best thing in it. --Robert Frost "I'm not very good at problems," admitted Milo. “What a shame," sighed the Dodecahedron. "They're so very useful. Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one foot tail?" ~The Phantom Toll Booth’ The secret of successful scholarship is the ability to dramatize one's own thoughts without an audience. --KJA I would rather endure the pain of progress than curtail the risks of thought. --Arpad Kadarkay life is like the bheatre in one respect. Its charm depends on the imagination of the spectators. --G. B. shaw “Certainly not; it can't be done," replied the Humbug, “Why not?" asked Milo. “why not, iBdeed?" exclaimed the bug, who seemed equally at home on either side of an argument. --Ihe Phantom Toil Booth Trend is not destiny. --Arpad Kaderkay I have to bear in mind the saying of Larochefoucauld, thet very young persons and old people who wish to avoid being ridiculous should never speak of love as a thing that concerns them personally. =-G. Bs Shaw Milo and Tock wondered what strange adventures lay ahead. The Humbug speculated on how he'd ever become involved in such a hazar- dous undertaking. And the crowd waved and cheered wildly, for, while they didn't care at all about anyone arriving, they were al- ways very pleased to see someone go. -~The Phantom Tol] Booth Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings. =~Konrad Lorenz The bigger the bill, the greater the relief at having paid it. --KIA If women wanted to put an end to war, they would have done it long ago. --G. B, ShawDOOR TO DOOR Iv: 2 To me God does not yet exist; but there is a creative force con- stantly struggling to evolve an executive organ of godlike know- ledge add power: that is, to achieve omnipotence atid omniscience; and every man afid woman born is a fresh attempt to achieve this object.--G. B. shaw A god can by anything that's needed right away. --charles Bukowski The opinion of others doesn't matter that much because, for one thing, they don't think about you that much. --May Harding The current theory that God already exists in perfection involves the belief that God deliberately created something lower than Him- self when He might just as easily have created something equally perfect. That is a horrible belief: it could only have arisen among People whose notion of greatness is to be surrounded by inferior beings-~like a Russian nobleman-~and to enjoy the sense of superior- ity te them. --G. B. shaw kathisophobia, fear of sitting down siderodromophobia...fear of railroad travel thalassophobia fear of the ocean scophophobia.. fear of being seen cherophobia.........fear of gaiety neophobia. symbolophobia. fear of anything new fear that every action has a symbolic or hidden import, I'm only a woman, I know; but I've a mind, and I can distinguish between sense and foolishness. I owe the first to my father; the rest to the local politicians. --Lysistrata We have to work from where we are, not from where we should have been. --KIA Mencken's definition of a Puritan: someone who has “a sinking feeling that someone else, somewhere, might be having fun." T have to stifle a natural tendency to dislike important people. -~Beryl Pfizer I used to wake up feeling guilty every morning, sometimes specifi- cally, but if not that, vaguely so. And I said to myself one morning (I was about forty), “This is nonsense. Guilt is a matter of pure imagining." It is not what happens to you that affects you but your opinion of it, --May Harding Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality cémpels it to feast upon shadows. --E. T. ByDOOR TO DOOR V (Fall '73) RJA So died Elpenor, the youngest of us all. And his name shall not be spoken again, Gar he was neither valiant in war, nor steadfast in mind. --Qdyssey 10 The theatre and life are not the same thing. --Pagliacci When life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and start a lemonade stand. --Sue Jelley I'm optimistic about the future. it's the past I'm pessimistic about. -~Beryl Pfizer Not by years, but through disposition, is wisdom acquired. --Plautus The artist must prophesy in the sense that he tells his audience at the risk of thetr displeasure the secrets of their own hearts. =~Collingwood This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are whattwe pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. --Vonnegut, MOTHER NIGHT Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. --Mother Night A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. --Arthur Miller, The Crucible I remember mistaking an old woman for a trout stream in Vermont, and I had to beg her pardon. "Excuse me," I said, "I thought you were a trout stream." I'm not,* she said. --Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in america THE BOSTON TRAVELLER, May 13, 1892, observes that fifty years ago, in some places in New England, it was not an uncommon thing for people to go into the cellars of thetr houses and scandalize the rats, in the expectation thet this would drive them away, It wi said that the rats would often disappear after the trial. --Mary E. Chamberlain, Journal of Amezican Folk-Lore (V, Jan-Mar 1892) He loved ever'thin' & ever'body, only he never let on-~ so nobody ever knowed it. ~-"Poor Judd fs Dead," Oklahoma It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is Envisible to the eye. --Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince I know it's not supposed to be good to put all your eggs in one basket but suppose you've only got one basket? --Beryl PfizerDOOR TO DOOR vi 2 Only the very poor, or eccentric, can surround themselves with shapes Of elegance {soon to be demolished) in which they are forced by poverty to move with leisurely grace. we remain alert so as not to get run down, but it turns out you only have to hop a few feet, to one side, and the whole huge machinery rolls by, not seeing you at all, --Lew Welch (quoted by Garg snyder) The longest recorded non-stop tennis doubles game is one of 19 hours 5 minutes by 1 girl and 3 boys from the Bourne Hereward Youth Club, England, on July 4, 1970, with 369 games completéd. ‘The duration record for the maintenance of continuous singles by 4 players is 40 hours at the Rumney Youth Center, Cardiff, south Wales, May 3-5, 1968. They played 802 games. ok of World is Members of the Imperial Household Agency have managed to preserve a more tranquil world. All major documents are still written with brush and ink. Lacquered carriages clatter along the winding road- ways. Telephones are answered with "Uketamawarimashita"--"I shall fulfill your honorable wish," ~-NEWSWEBK Life is short, but wide. --Spanish prowerb I£ you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and climb over befofe you've tried fertilizing your own, you're more interested in climbing fences than in green grass. --KJA The faster you make a mistake, the less apt anyone is to notice it, --Beryl Pfizer The Gistinction between quality and quantity is usually proclaimed loudest by those incapable of quantity. --KJA The root of the matter is a very simple and old-fashioned thing, a thing so simple that I am almost ashamed to mention it, for fear of the derisive smile with which wise cynics will greet my words. The thing I mean--please forgive me for mentioning it--is love. . . If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guidance for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellec- tual honesty. =-Bertrand Russell DOOR To DOOR VI. (Winter '73) KIA Hope is a memory of the future. --Marcel It's a hard decision thether to start at the top or the bottom of agixl, With Vida I just didn't know where to begin, --Brautigan Being vice-president isn't exactly a crime, but it's kind of a disgrace, like writing anonymous letters. --John Nance Gardner I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. --Dorothy, Wizard of oz and a1] #hese unas shal] aarweDOOR TO DOOR VI: 2 St ugtrangers," replied the giant, "your speech pleases me. And though I should never forgive myself for not telling you that one day or another you will be my dinner, this need not keep us from being friends, in the meantime. After all, the cook who kills the chickens is no less welcome among those which remain." -~The Cyclops, Elpenow@r(Giraudoux) Nobody ever went broke over-estimating the vulgarity of the American people. --H. L, Mencken fhe Power of a language is not that it rejects what is foreign but that it devours it. --Goethe 3, yould disembowel anyone who proposed a Dickens with any except the original illustrations. As for the fiend who suggested a "Alice" with Gravings other than Tenniel's, my dear George, T would have his braine taken out, buttered, and given to the dog, —~James Agate Change is no substitute for improvement. ~-KJA exe consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. --Rilke Qne mist find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking a detour, error. ~-Hesse, Siddhartha gpg Boxmal woman is the opposite of the beast, who pounces on his prey. She is the prey who pounces on the beast, ~-Brtega y Gasset Aman keeps, like his love, his courage dark. —-saint Exupery You cease to die by dying. --webster The truths of morality are as evideht as those of mathematics. --Cudvorth Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed, That he is grown so great? --Julius Coesar Zt is normal to share the delusions of one's society. It is abnormal to develop private delusions. --Frank Herbert Antigone: Art is so much greater than government. Creon: That's easy for you to say. President Nixon is suffering from delusions of adequacy. —-Moyor Joseph Alioto The winter is lurking within my moods, And the rustling of the withered leaf Is the constant music of my grief. --Henry David Thoreau Not to take what one does not need can be the most difficult thing in the word. -~camsDOOR TO DOOR vi: 3 The prospect of being linked for life to a girl who would come down to breakfast, put her hands: over my eyes and say ‘Guess who' had given my morale a sickening wallop, reducing me to the level of one of those wee sleekit timotoms cowering beasties Jeeves tells me the poet Burns used to write about. --P, G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves Besddes, he had an antipathy to silent men. They were silent, he maintained, because they had nothing to say. --Myles Connolly, Mr. Blue It is one of the most interesting things in Europe to note how the French patronage the Italians, and how the Italians feel superior to the French, and both with some reason; for the French are more biilliant and clear, and the Italians are more happy and wise, --Sean O'Faolain The successful conversationalist is not the man who does not think stupid things, but the man who does not say the stupid things he thinks. --Hyles Connolly To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps poll with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. --Henry David Thoreau Sheer stupidity has an inertness and stability about it which shields it from articulate attack, --Chuck Vandagriff “Books are for people who cannot make up their minds or have no minds to make up." Myles Connolly, Mx. Blue For a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. --Henry David Thoreau The mind of the artist is a seething kettle of potentially poisonous contradictions kept from boiling toward pointless evaporation only by the fiercest concentration to maintain a certain disciplined laziness of the will in which alone, as in an oasis, the complacency of creation becomes possible. --KJA The infirmary at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is recorded to have ad- thktted a young man from Long Witton, Northumberland, on March 25, 1769, suffering from hiccoughs which could be heard at a range of more than a mile. --Guiness Book of World Records, Oikse.ee +a member of the lower classes aulics.: «pertaining to a royal court; courtly frores+sssssessextremely cold; frosty polynya......+.a large body of open water surrounded by sea ice coprolalia.....the obsessive use of obscene language He [JFK] lent a friend his second-best dinner jacket, and it came back with a hole in it that Kennedy did not notice at the time. When he went to put it on later, he saw the hole and muttered, "I break my ass to get into the White House and the damn place has moths," NEWSWEEK (Gerald Ford] is the only man I know who can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. ~-Lyndon JohnsonPerhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strengkr to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare. --ames Baldwin, Giovanni's Room Nothing we love overmch,is ponderable to the touch. --W. B. Yeats I looked at his paintings and they skinned my eyes. --Gulley Jimson Clouds come from time to time--and bring to men a chance to rest from looking at the monn, --Basho If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite, --william Blake frap........to bind or wrap tightly, with rope or chains fratch......to disagree, quarrel monophagia..the eating of or craving for only one kind of food monopsony...the market condition that exists when there is onlyonme buye Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other. --Albert Cams One must learn to live and die, and, in order to be a man, to refuse to be a god. --Albert Camus He recognized in himself that power to forget thdch only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. --Albert CamusDOOR TO DOOR LLL (sprang */3) sun Marrying a woman because you happen to be in love with her is about as logical a proceeding as-throwing the cat out of the window because the rhododendrons are in bloom. -~James Branch Cabell Edo my think, and you do your thing. Zam not in this world to live up to your expectations And you are not in this word to live up to mine. You mee you and I am I and if by chance we ind each other, it's beautiful. T£ not, it can't be helped. --Fritz Perls These flowers are like the pleasures of the world; This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream: For so I thought I was a cave-keeper, And cook to honest creatures. But ‘tis not so: "Iwas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, Which the brain makes of fumes, Our very eyes Are sometimes like our judgements, blind. ~-Cymbeline, IV.ii.296-301 A skillful politicaan is one who can stand up and rock the boat and make you believe that he is the only one who can save you from the storm. --Roger Allen The cynic seeks the perfection of his cynicism, the villain of his villainy. We make legends of each other. I believe in the possi- bility of heroes. --Leslie George Katz Finally, after essay upon essay dealing with the deification/humili- ation of women, the subject of women begins to take on the contours of a huge, mentally indigestible lump, --Mergot Hentoff Isn't the tragic flaw manifested, in the theatre, as the conflict, within the hero, between the wish to know and the absence of any corresponding wish to face reality? --Marianne David I @o not know if others have had the same experience; but from what I have seen of life I have the disturbing conviction that, at least in our time, there are no intelligent men other than intellectuals. And since the majority of intellectuals are not intelligent either, it turns out that intelligence is an exeeedingly rare event on this planet. --Ortega y Gasset Drawing . . . is essentially movement, as much as it is the intensity of something dark on something light. The way in which a black is set off against a white, the modulation or the transitions from one to the other or the fixedness of the contrasts between them, all con- tribute to suggest a specific rate of speed. A spot in a drawing is as much regulated as is a sound. Save when these elements are deli- berately neutralized, the drawing is nothing but an imprint--a secre- tion, as it were--of characteristics of life in movement. Like the copper wize that aarries an electric charge, the drawing carries afd communicates these characteristics. The pulsation of the drawing @iscloses the vital rhythm that gave birth to it, brings us into contact with it, and commmnicates itself to the viewer. --Rene HuygheDOOR TO DOOR III: 2 The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind. to correlate all its contents. We live on a placia island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it Yee pot meant that we should voyage fr. The sciences, each strain= ing in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some Gay the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, Shat we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from tne Geadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. --H. P. Lovecraft, 1928 Bue gzeat productive human beings have usually been people who were TRE, Very Sexéaus, according to the petit-bourgeois conception oF thet virtue. --ortega y Gasset feat is California's state candy? It seems to be the jelly bean-- fe which Gov. Ronald Reagan has been addicted for years in’ lice oF fhe pipe that he smoked as a young actor, The governor, 62, keess suite and passes a jar around the table during Cabinet meetings, "I¢ ever wun out of jelly beans," said Reagan, "well, I don't snow how this state could function." —-NEWSWEEK possess of piercing a portion of that imaginative fog and discovering beyond it a new authentic bit of reality, quivering in sheer soheu™ Tam alone. I am It is true that I am growing More each day Like the ones I can no longer Bear speaking to. --Ken McCitllough Surgure is simply how one lives and is connected to history by habit. ~-Le Roi Jones Zmin does not knww what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying. -~G. K, Chesterton He liked them shy, so that he could arouse them; he liked then bold, so his prowess could humble them; he liked them wanton, so thet they gould excite him; he liked them married, so that their schedules would not conflict with lis own dinner at home, ~-Alfred Kazin You can't think what delightful agony it is to be in love with me: my genius for hurting people is extraordinary; and 1 wlweys do it wkth the best intentions, --c, B. shaw (letter to Ellen Terry) The essence of civilization consists not in the multiplication of wants but in their deliberate and voluntary renunciation. —-dendhd fo hunger for use and go unused is the worst hunger of all. --Lyndon JohnsonDOOR TO DOOR III: 3 A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them all is usually the play itself. --Kenneth Tynan A decision, like a drawing, is no more than an arrangement of boundary lines and these vary according to personality and judgement. --Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Faith is somethingddeeper, more passionate, less derisive, more tranguil than anything I've ever felt. . . That's why peace won't come ‘to me now. I haven't had faith in anything for years. w-James Hilton ‘The Dodo's verdict on the race, in Alice in Wonderland: “Everybody has won, and all mst have prizes!" The majority of men are subjective towards themselves and objective towards all others, terribly objective towards others sometimes--but the real task is in fact to be objective towards oneself and subjec- tive towards all others. --Kierkegaard I don't have to know anything--I'm a critic. --Bonnie Fraser Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. --Orson Welles (felevision) is a medium of entertainment which pennits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain aa@nesome. You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice, --Richard Burton If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. -~Goethe Busts and besoms heve I known Of various shapes and dizes From grievous disappointments To jubilant surprises. --Anon. A good pig eats everything, --czech saying According to Billy Graham, there is no sex in heaven. Replying, during an interview, to a question about the heavy emphasis on the male role in Christian history, Graham said, "I don't think there is any sex in heaven, If people only want to go to heaven for sex, they'd better have their heaven on earth." --CHICAGO DAILY NEWS Dr. Nils-Olof Jacobson, a Svedish doctor and author of Life after Death, has determined that a human soul weighs twenty-one grams, or about 3/4 of an ounce. Dr. Jacobson said he placed the deathbeds of terminal patients on extremely sensitive scales, As the patients died and their souls left their bodies, the needle dropped twenty- one grams. --NEW YORK PosTThe fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog only one. One good one. ~-Archflochus when Tolstoy was a boy, he formed a club with his brother. To be ini- tiated, a member had to stand in a corner for a half hour and not think of a white bear. It is easier to make bad out of good than good out of evil. Never try to teach me. I am too old to be taught. ~-Thedgnis A raisin, dropped into a glass of champagne, will rise and fall con- tinuously in the glass. “Hook the Herald Angels sing/tirs. Simpson's pinched our King." Hegel published his proof that there could be no moxe than seven planets just a week before the discovery of the eighth. Hey, bonnie lassie, can ye milk a coo? dust tak it be the titties & pul, pu', pu’. “There is as much chance of repealing the 18th Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monu- ment tied to its tail." --Senator Morris sheppard, author of the 18th Amend. I do not like to find fault. Enough for me if one is not bad, not too unsteady, knows what is right and good for his city, a sound man. I will not jook at his faults. For the generation of fools is endless, Take anything as good which is not soiled with shame, --Siménides Aimee Semple McPherson was buried with a live tefephone in her coffin. I have sworn ten thousand times To make no more epigrams. Every ass is my enemy now. But When I look eh your face, The old sickness overcomes me. --Palladas Say nothing--unless you can improve upon the silence. Brazil used to print a bank note worth one cruzeiro. It was discontinued in 1960, when it was found that it cost 1.2 cruzeiros to print. Definition of the mokth--as located by Mrs. Tirzah Fund of st. Louis in Funk and Wagnall's Practical standard Dictiomary: am'bi-va~lent....Experiencing love and hatred at the same time, for the same person, especially for a mother-in-law. I£ we can't get objectivity in our dictionaries, how about equal time? =-SATURDAY REVIEWDOOR TO DOOR I: 2 "No sane person in the country likes the war in Vietnam, and neither does President Johnson." --Hubert Humphrey, 1968 I hate the cyclic epics. I take no Delight in ways where mobs hither and thither go. I hate a wandering lover. From public springs I never drink. I loathe all common things. ~~Callimachus Magnesium ashes weigh more than the metal. When I took physics in high school and was told by the teacher, on the very first day of class, that a body immersed in water loses in weight by an amount equal to the weight of the water displaced, I quit the course. I just didn't hawe the chemistry for nonsense like that, --SATURDAY REVIEW IE you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree, --Brownie McGhee Iamst not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone pest I will turn the inner eye to see its path, Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain, --Herbert, Dune People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. ~~Anderson Father rode on top of the wagon. He was then a bald-headed man of forty-five, a little fat, and from long associatéon with mother and the chickens he had become habitually silent and discouraged. --anderson, The Egg It is necessary that things Should pass away into that from Which they were born. All things must pay fo each other the penalties And compensations for all the Inequalities wrought by time. --Anixamandros Show me a satisfied man and I will show you a failure. --Edison Try for nothing excessive. The middle degree is best. so, Kyrnos, you will win virtue, a difficult thing to attain. -~Theégnis KANT: "To be is to dose. SARTRE: "To do is to be... SINATRA: "Do be do be do.. --iyron Hood I don't like the word prose; it's too prosaic, --~Carson McCullers Loveliest of what I leave behind is sunlight, and loveliest after that the shining stars, and the moon's face, but also cucuhtbers that are ripe, and pears, and apples. --Praxillahall Sa; hfe Mew & Kenneth Jolin Ati [Never put off till tomorrow what someone else might do today. [1 you think the grass is gzeener on the other side of the fence and climb over before you've tried fertilizing your own, you're not really interested in green grass. [The distinction between quality and quantity is usually proclaimed loudest by those incapable of quantity. [1 always hate to qualify my own generalizations. iTt's veally very simple. I know I'm not a genius but I like people to think I am. So I pretend I am a genius, walking the narrow line between the arrogant and the anassuming--until their uncertainties lead them to broach the matter with me, Then f heartily agree with them that I am not, after all, a genius. At this point I begin to suspect that I am, Both of us, then, both I and the other people, have turned our energies inward--they, their uncertainties; I, my suspicions, Neither of us seems better off; but at least we've changed places.W [What is surprising is not that the human spirit is not strong enough to lift man free from the earth into the purity of space, but rather that it is strong enough to keep him pinned to the earth he despises. That is why the tragic hero will not commit suicide. It don't believe in the affectation of historical discontent. That is the poorest excuse for inertia. iwrite to God, if you want; but he only reads braille. [We no longer pursue the truth--defining fact is rare enough. Who knows what happened before the press showed up? [Those who maintain the reality of chance will someday be con- sidered medieval. Yet the day when man has explained the laws of chance will be the day he ceases to be man as we now know him =-becoming, instead, an uneasy creature smothered by boredom and excessive security. Jour modern syndrome is that we have made our writers ashamed of being thieves. [change is no substitute for improvement. [The mind of the artist is a seething kettle of potentially poison~ ous contradictions kept from boiling toward pointless evaporation only by the fiercest concentration to maintain e certain disciplinedlaziness of the will in which alone, as in an oasis, the complacency of creation becomes possible. IThe larger the bill, the greater the relief at having paid it. IWe have to work from where we are, not from where we should have been. lauthorship is the democratic substitute for imprisonment. ITo dream is to think by moonlight, by the light of an inner moon. [If the fear of guilt is holding you back, then, by all means, go it and live with the guilt. Iwhen shat upon, better to be still than to flap your wings and spread the shit around. 41 don't like to hear this called “the age of anxiety;" it makes me anxious. IMen of great achievement are either imaginative thinkers or factual collectors. The energy demanded by one moment of thought is equal to the industry needed to amass a large collection of facts. The former process leads only to the necessity of action; in the latter, action occurs, as if automatically, from the collecting itself.DOOR TO DOOR II: 2 Do not come down the ladder, I have just taken it away. --Beckett Torthrop Frye reckoned among the natianal assets of Canadians a isertain unpretentiousness, a cheerful willingness to concece che immense importance of the non-Canadian part of the homon race," Many axe the birds who under the sun‘s rays wander the skys not all of them mean anything . . . Odyssey 2.181-182 Darwin said he always immediately wrote down evidence against a theory because otherwise, he'd noticed, he would forget it, ‘The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer. aE. R. Murrow if we wish to mke a new world, we have the materials ready~-the firbt one too was made out of chaos. —-R. Quillen The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. --Frrank Dobie Z used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. 1 suddenly realised that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all,and that it was the people saying they were weird that were weind, ~~Paul McCartney fhe story of the hinge is that it is learning to ly. “No hinge has ever flown," the locks tell it again and again. “That ts why we are learning," it answers, “ond then we will teach the doors.» w-W. S. Merwin A dog has its own way of thinking. --Tlona Beburka (4th grade) Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that te worth knowing can be ‘taught. w-Oscar Wilde The world exists because it is always too late to retreat. --Gombrowicn tre fact is that, with few exceptions, men can be divided into three flasses: those who think they are Don‘Juan, those who think they nave been Don Juan, and those who think they could have been Don Just bat aid not want to be. ~-Ortega y Gasset T hate to qualify my own generalizations, --KJA «fear of cats ailurophobia.. -fear of flowers anthophobia... cynophobia fear of dogs equinophobia.. +fear of horses murophobia... of mice wysophobia, of dirt yxichophobia. of hairDOOR TO DOOR II: 3 Pound's activities as artistic entrepreneur . . . inevitably brought him up against that other formidable entrepreneur, Gertrude stein, They didn't hit it off very well. Miss Stein dismissed Pound as "the village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.” An intellectual is a person who has a sheer love 6£ the innumerable conceptual possibilities originating from a common empirical base. =-Jay Bail it's really very simple. I know I'm not a genius but I like people to think I am. so I pretend that I am a genius, walking the narrow ine between the arrogant and the unassuming—-until their own uncer- tainties lead them to broach the matter directly with me. Then T heartily assure them that I am not, after all, a genius. At that point I begin to believe that I am. Both of us then, both I and the other people, have turned our gnergies inward--they, their un- certainties; I, my belief. Neither of us seems better off; but at least we've changed places. --KJA The saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admizable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else. -~Thomas Merton What is decisive is not the strength of the sound, or its tonal colour, but its hidden character, the intensity whth which its msical power affects the nerves. This is the fundamental problem of every musical instrument and every instrument maker. He must try and endow his instrument with the highestppessible degree of tonal intensity. He must construct instruments which elevate into human consciousness vibrations which are otherwise inaudible and unperceived. The in- strument maker's problem is therefore thet of bringing silence to life. He must uncover the hidden sound of silence. --Frank Kafka There have been only two great men on earth, and Jesus Christ was one of them. --G. 8. shaw "Felling in love". . . is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. Without a paralysis of consciousness and a eduction of our habitual world, we could never fall in lowe... "Palling in love" is a phenomenon of attention, but of an abnormal state of attention which occurs in a normal man. --Orgéga y Gasset To say that man is rational and free is, I think, a statement very close to being false. We actually do possess reason and freedom; but both powers form only a tenuous film which envelops our being, the interior of which is neither rational nor free, -~Ortega y Gasset One can acquire anfthing in solitude, except character. —-stendhal In love we often doubttwhat we most firmly believe. In any other passion we no longer doubt a thing once it is proved. --Stendhal A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. =-Cervantes