— Tracy Chevalier American writer 1962
On choosing a notebook for each novel that she writes in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)
„But I was miserable. I hurt inside. I didn’t have the peace of mind that Jesus promised if we did his work. I didn’t have the very thing I preached. Finally, in January of 1956 when I had but six months to go on my tour of duty, I made up my mind to settle it once and for all. I made a final study of the Bible and wrote down everything that sounded true in a notebook on my right. Those things that sounded wrong or inconsistent or that I couldn’t believe, I wrote in a notebook to my left. For three months, between 3:00 and 7:00 A. M., sitting under a single bulb in the attic above the barracks, I made a comparative study of the Synoptic Gospels. When I finished, the left-handed notebook was completely filled with chapter and verse and reasons why I could not believe in Christianity. The right-handed notebook contained about two pages of homilies on love. So I gave up Jesus and the Baptist Church.“
— Oscar Zeta Acosta, libro Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
Origine: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 133.
Oscar Zeta Acosta
avvocato e scrittore statunitense 1935 - 1974Citazioni simili
„The seeds of who I am now had been planted. I wrote in my notebook one day during ethics class.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
Origine: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
— Lorna Dee Cervantes American writer 1954
On how her politics and poetry merged in “A Conversation with Lorna Dee Cervantes” https://www.academia.edu/4464223/A_Conversation_with_Lorna_Dee_Cervantes in World Literature Today (2010)
— Joan Miró Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist 1893 - 1983
from: Miro, on English Wikipedia
Miró's quote on 'automatic painting and drawing', explaining the start of his work 'Harlequin's Carnival' he made in Paris, strongly admired then by Surrealists like André Breton
1915 - 1940
„I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.“
— David Foster Wallace American fiction writer and essayist 1962 - 2008
Origine: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
— Bruce Parry British documentarian 1969
As quoted in "Bruce almighty: What drives Tribe's presenter-explorer Bruce Parry?" by Ed Caesar in The Independent (11 August 2007) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/bruce-almighty-what-drives-tribes-presenterexplorer-bruce-parry-461007.html
„I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks.“
— Dermot Healy Irish writer 1947 - 2014
Penguin Group (2013) A Conversation with Dermot Healy http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/long_time_no_see.html, Penguin US, accessed May 5, 2013
— B.F. Skinner American behaviorist 1904 - 1990
As quoted in "Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter in The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4 (2008) edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872.
— Guy N. Smith British writer 1939
Booksqawk Interview https://www.guynsmith.com/2014/10/booksqawk-interview/ (October 31, 2014)
— Eva Hart Titanic survivor 1905 - 1996
"I never closed my eyes at all – I saw that ship sink. And I saw that ship break in half.
Interview from 1993, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD5J43Z9AWI, quoted in New York Times, 16 February 1996
„I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what.“
— Jimmy Durante American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893 - 1980
In reference to being teased at school as a child for his looks, as quoted in Schnozzola : The Story of Jimmy Durante (1951) by Gene Fowler
Contesto: I was hurt so deep that I made up my mind never to hurt anybody else, no matter what. I never made jokes about anybody's big ears, their stut- terin', or about them bein' off their nut.
„I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny“
— Sam Shepard American playwright and actor 1943 - 2017
— Brian Wilson American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer 1942
Bassics interview (1999)
— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913
Modernized rendition: I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
The phrase "" is a slogan made famous during the independence struggle of several countries.
1880s, Harriet, The Moses of Her People (1886)
Variante: There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would take the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for liberty as long as my strength lasted.
Contesto: I had reasoned dis out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have de oder; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for my liberty as long as my strength lasted, and when de time came for me to go, de Lord would let dem take me.
