Some Quotes for June 2024 (#26)

Frank Auerbach, Emil Cioran, Joanna Maciejewska, Ursula K. Le Guin, Seth Godin, Gustave Flaubert, Leonard Berstein, Bertrand Russell, Olga Livshin, Carl Rogers

Link = source I've actually read/endorse. No link = random, out-of-context snippet I was able to track down on the internet. (Some of these are advice—others I just enjoy the language or sentiment.)

Style is not about having a program—it is simply how one behaves in a crisis. –Frank Auerbach

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Love is an agreement on the part of two people to overestimate each other. –Emil Cioran

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I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. –Joanna Maciejewska

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From “Step One: Write”: The most frequent evasive tactic is for the would-be writer to say, But before I have anything to say, I must get experience…But experience isn’t something you go and get—it’s a gift, and the only prerequisite for receiving it is that you be open to it. A closed soul can have the most immense adventures, go through a civil war or a trip to the moon, and have nothing to show for all that “experience”; whereas the open soul can do wonders with nothing. –Ursula K. Le Guin

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You don’t need more time…You just need to decide. –Seth Godin

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. –Gustave Flaubert

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A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. –Leonard Berstein

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Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. –Bertrand Russell

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From “I, Too, Write Pandemic Poems”: I, too, am desperate for a tenuous separation / of destiny from statistics. –Olga Livshin

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. –Carl Rogers