Kate Zambreno Quotes

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!

  

  Kajol
  • Body
  • Choice
  • Tomorrow

• To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Play

• A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'

  

  Yves Klein
  • Air
  • Gold
  • Text

• I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.

  

  Dale Ahlquist
  • Good
  • Thinking

• It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Interesting
  • Fantasy
  • Utopia

• I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Together
  • Forever
  • Attitude

• As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

  

  Epictetus
  • Sea
  • Pleasant
  • Escaped

• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Understand
  • Song Of A Bird

• And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • End
  • Understand
  • Unpredictable

• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Women
  • Tea
  • Foundation

• Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Adult
  • Comparing
  • Trajectory

• For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Writing
  • My Life
  • Reflects

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Work
  • Horse
  • Office

• The reward is in the risk. You can’t stay hidden inside Grandpa’s overprotective cloak forever. You’ve seemed like you needed to grow out of that for a while. Mom and Dad going away, and the red notebook, these things just helped. Now it’s up to you to

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Mom

• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Proud
  • Drink
  • Empty

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Notes
  • Notebook
  • Fragments