Arcidi Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least what journalists term "great books," is to me the sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair. My greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose are, in this order: Joyce's "Ulysses"; Kafka's "Transformation"; Bely's "St. Petersburg," and the first half of Proust's fairy tale, "In Search of Lost Time. — Vladimir Nabokov

The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron. — Peter Matthiessen

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass. — Charlie Munger

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. — Frantz Fanon

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi

Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors. — Eugene H. Peterson

Whenever a woman says 'We need to talk,' it means she's reached a decision and it's already too late for you to talk back. — Tim Sandlin