David Antin

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go. ↗

— David Antin

#go #happy #i #listen #see

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty. ↗

— David Antin

#became #because #feeling #had #i

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. ↗

— David Antin

#character #else #hard #hostage #mouth

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it. ↗

— David Antin

#based #comes #current #current form #entertainment

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path. ↗

— David Antin

#continuous #follow #particular #path #thinking

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. ↗

— David Antin

#different #every #every time #many #narratives

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. ↗

— David Antin

#always #ancient #anxiety #began #deficiencies

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. ↗

— David Antin

#dialogue #future #inside #oral #past

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical