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Neal Cassady, under a San Francisco movie marquee advertising The Wild One, 1955 He’s with his girlfriend at the time,...

Gertrude Stein at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1905 “What happened to-day, a narrative” “It takes a lot of time...

Yukio Mishima “Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.” - “Nobody even imagines how well one...

Jacques Derrida, 1949-50 Love “The difference between the who and the what at the heart of love, separates the heart....

Margot Fonteyn, Swan Lake ...

Alain Robbe-Grillet . "The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it." "Memory belongs...

Gustave Flaubert . “Sadness is a vice.” "Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry." "There is no truth. There...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 1893 “The soul is never wholly assembled, except in delight.” “Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you...

Frankie Valli, Tommy DeVito, and Hank Majewski in 1954 "Jazz was my first love." "When I was a kid, I...

Writing “All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of...