Quotes of: Iconoclastic Keyword

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

I think that every artist dreams of renewing the forms which came before, but I think very few can be considered to have achieved that. We are all dwarves standing upon the shoulders of the giants who preceded us, and I think we must never forget tha...

Peter Greenaway

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great tha...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city -- as I once did for a couple of years.

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast