B*** QUOTATIONS FOR ALL OCCASIONS [compiled by Catherine Frank] 2000 MJF Books
Contains: "Picasso once said, "One starts to get young at the age of sixty, and then it's too late." from On Turning 80 p. 232
"If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains, and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for savin' and keepin' his power." from On Turning 80 p. 241
B*** BREATHING ON YOUR OWN [compiled by Richard Kehl] 2001 Darling and Company
Contains: "He opens himself to all influences - everything nourishes him. Everything is gravy to him, including what he does not understnad - particularly what he does not understand." p. 34
"To be a poet of life, though artists seldom realize it, is the summum. To breathe out more than one breates in." p. 97
"Until we lose ourselves, there is no hope of finding ourselves." p. 105
"The situation reached the height of the ludicrous when I suddenly realized one day that of everything I had written about the man I could just as well have said the opposite. I had indubitably reached that dead end which lies so artfully hidden in the phrase "the meaning of meaning"." p. 114
"The world is the mirror of myself dying." p. 126
"The best thing in Dada was - "God can afford to make mistakes. So can Dada!" p. 127
B*** THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY LITERATURE COMPANION [edited by Anne Skillion] 2001 The Free Press
Contains: "This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty..." from Tropic of Cancer p. 86
"How many wonderful days and nights I spent at the 42nd Street Library, seated at a long table, one among thousands, it seemed, in that main reading room. The tables themselves excited me. It was always my desire to own a table of extraordinary dimensions, a table so large that I could not only sleep on it but dance on it, even skate on it... Yes, it gave one a good feeling to be working amidst so many other industrious students in a room the size of a cathedral, under a lofty ceiling which was an imitation of heaven itself... Sometimes I sat and meditated, wondering what question I could put to the genius which presided over the spirit of this vast institution that it could not answer." from Plexus p. 251
B*** THE TRAVELING CURMUDGEON [compiled by Jon Winokur] 2003 Sasquatch Books
Contains: "I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital, But rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste." p. 2
"Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish." p. 72
"You can travel 50 thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread." p. 98
B*** MY LIFE SO FAR [by Jane Fonda] 2005 Random House
Contains: "Art teaches nothing except the significance of life." p. 412
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