index

"everything remains unsettled forever. depend on it."--h.miller

"our lives consist of how we choose to distort them." ---w.allen

"we are always in two worlds at once, and neither of them is the world of reality."--h.miller.

"art is a jealous mistress."--emerson

"character is higher than intellect."--emerson.

"we all know that art is not truth. art is a lie that makes us realize truth."--picasso.

"those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only at night."--e.a.poe.

"we think in generalities, but we live in detail."--a.whitehead.

"everyday we slaughter our finest impulses."--h.miller

"if at first you dont succeed, try, try again. then quit. no use being a damn fool about it."--w.c.fields.

pictures and words.

"everyday we beg for fresh torment-the more we itch and scratch the better we feel."--h.miller

"every day i live in three times-the past, the present and the future."-h.miller.

"art is a vice. you don't marry it legitimately. you rape it."--e.degas.

"we must do the ridiculous in order to touch the sublime."--h.miller.

"vulgarity has its uses. vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly."--m.beerbohm.

"damaged people are dangerous. they know they can survive."--j.hart

"it is necessary to the happieness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself."--t.paine.

"be not afraid to live. believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."--w.james.

"sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls."--j.donne.

it may be a mess, but i file my life on these shelves.
neatness never accounted for anything anyway.

"we fear to lose ourselves. And yet, until we lose ourselves there can be no hope of finding ourselves."--h.miller.

"all the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams."--e.canetti.

"i am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything."--t.h.huxley.

"i don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right."--g.cohan.

"you bid me burn your letters. but i must forget you first."--j.adams

"a first impulse was never a crime."--p.corneille.

"the heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."--b.pascal.

"genius does what it must. talent does what it can."--o. meredith.

"man is a history making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. --w.h.auden.

images, words by j.hagen