#bio

There is a line somewhere in Wozzeck that translates out to, roughly, 'The world is awful.' Yes, I said to myself as I shot across the Bay Bridge not giving a fuck how fast I drove, that sums it up. That is high art: 'The world is awful.' That says it all. This is what we pay composers and painters and the great writers to do: tell us this; from figuring this out, they earn a living. What a masterful, incisive insight. What penetrating intelligence. A rat in a drain ditch could tell you the same thing, were it able to talk. If rats could talk, I'd do anything they said. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#dubious-revelation #world #art

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

#based #biography #entirely #expectation #had

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography. ↗

— Julie Doucet

#caught #cold #i #time #work

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#hurt-feelings #love #theraphy #attitude

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography. ↗

— June Foray

#autobiography #i #introduction #most #new

A god who is capable of sending intelligible signals to millions of people simultaneously, and of receiving messages from all of them simultaneously, cannot be, whatever else he might be, simple. Such Bandwidth! ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#biology #god-delusion #science #intelligence

Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. ↗

— Jim Goad

#biological #caused #exploit #fact #how

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#carnegie hall #dubious #expected #experience #first

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. ↗

— Philip Guedalla

#bounded #definite #east #fiction #history

Politics is applied biology. ↗

— Ernst Haeckel

#biology #politics