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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order read more
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought read more
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather read more
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, read more
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
