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I am always collecting quotes. Let
us examine them, and reword them.
One can reinvent them, as Marshall McLuhan did when he reworded Robert Browning's 'Our reach should exceed our grasp or what is a heaven for' INTO 'Our reach should exceed its grasp or what is a metaphor.' After a few of my favorites, there's the description for my workshop Number 63 - REWORDING APHORISMS from http://www.laughtears.com/workshops4.html (which contains many of my favorite quotes within the descriptions of the various workshops) I welcome your
input.
Thank
you,
310-306-7330
The word is now the cheapest and most
universal drug - McLuhan
"The best fiction is more true than any kind of journalism."
- William Faulkner
"I am part Communist and part Fascist with a healthy dose of
Monarchism in my Marxism, but at bottom an Anarchist with a passion for
order." - Wyndham Lewis circa 1929
"I have always been on the side of those who seek the truth, but I part ways with them when they think they have found it." - Luis Bunuel "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." - Marcel Duchamp "There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action. There is only one of you in all time; therefore this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. The world will not have it. It will be lost. It is not your business to determine how good it is, or how valuable it is, or how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, and to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction. A blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others." - Martha Graham Carefully make plans, then do the opposite - McLuhan
Where the hand of man never set foot - James Joyce
We shape our tools, then they shape
us. - Marshall McLuhan
Communication of the new is a miracle, but not impossible. - Marshall McLuhan **********************************************************
workshop # 63 - REWORDING
APHORISMS - Marshall McLuhan reworded Robert Browning's
'Our reach should exceed our grasp or what is a heaven for' INTO 'Our
reach should exceed its grasp or what is a metaphor.' More
examples: "The historian wants more documents that he can use. The
dramatist wants more liberties that he can take. " - Henry James INTO
"The media ecologist wants more lecture possibilities that he can
transform into the collective nitty-gritty. " - Gerry Fialka. "In the
future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes" - Andy Warhol INTO "In
the future everyone will have privacy for 15 minutes" - Robert Dobbs.
"The present day composer refuses to die" - Edgard Varese INTO "The
present day alchemist refuses to perform wittingly" - Gerry Fialka VIA
"If I have performed alchemy, then it was in the only way that is
reliable today, namely unwittingly." - Marcel Duchamp. "There
ain't no Santa Claus on the evening stage" - Captain Beefheart INTO
"There ain't no sanity clause on the mourning stage" - Gerry Fialka.
The following is a list of
quotes to reword:
A historian is
a prophet in reverse - Friedrich Schlegel
Practical
politics consists in ignoring facts - Henry Admas
To know the
world, one must construct it - Cesare Pavese
Be careful how
you interpret the world, it is like that - Ercih Heler
Typos are
worse than fascism - I F Stone
One never
knows, do one? - Fats Waller
"Poetry,
therefore, we will call Musical Thought." — Thomas Carlyle, “Heroes and
Hero Worship”
“Reduced
to its simplest and most essential form, the poem is a song. Song is
neither discourse nor explanation.” - Octavio Paz
"the only absolute is that there are no absolutes"
- ?
if it works, break it - ?
you want it, you need it, you buy
it, you forget it - Barbara Kruger
electricity saved humanity,
electricity killed humanity - ?
How the Irish Saved civilization
- Thomas Cahill
How the Hippies Saved Physics -
David Kaiser
Do not believe anything. Don't take anything personally. Keep an open mind. - American Zen "Better to
reign in hell than serve in heaven." - John Milton
If
you can't play it perfectly right, then play it perfectly wrong - Sun Ra
Language
is to him thick vague handles swirling by; he grabs what he can - John
Updike
His
music is better than it sounds - Mark Twain on Wagner
The
evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their
bones - Shakespeare
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