Lorentzen Quotes & Sayings

In fact it seems that there may be not one but two basic dichotomies : on the one hand similitude and difference, on the other hands solidarity and opposition. The "indifference" is ultimately a form of opposition.

At the pre-oedipien state, when there is acquired the distinction of the self and the other, similitude is a sign of belonging to a single class, an extension of the self, and difference is a sign of exteriority, of separation.
With the oedipien state the homology is reversed: difference of sex signifies complementarity and desire, whereas identity of sex entails identity of object of desire, rivalry, conflict — Gilbert Durand

It's a fairly simple rhetorical trick, the comic laundry list of the traveler's experiences, but it also calls attention to the writer's powers of observation and establishes that the writer's voice, rather than the subject matter, will be the star of the show. But it brings with it the risk of seducing the reader into loving the narrator and loathing the people described. Wallace called this 'the Asshole Problem. — Christian Lorentzen

You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something. — Jean Thompson

The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants. — Neal Schon

There's only one reason why you write new songs: You get sick of the old songs. It's not that I didn't do anything during the time when I wrote no songs. I was creative, but in another way. I had ideas for songs and collected the ideas. — Tom Waits

Who would ever want to read a novel about a punk and a drunk! Everybody knew a couple or a dozen; they were not to be taken seriously; nuisances and trouble-makers, nothing more; like queers and fairies, people were bell-sick of them; whatever ailed them, that was their funeral; who cared? - life presented a thousand things more important to be written about than misfits and failures. — Charles Jackson

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. — Carter Burwell

There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully. — Alex Honnold

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul? — Jesus Christ

I don't really like organizations where people are "deemed" things. — Mindy Kaling

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations — Thomas Hughes

NW is full of split selves, people alienated from the very things they thought defined them. Their nostalgia
for old movies, old songs, buses they don't ride anymore
is less a salve than a form of pain. — Christian Lorentzen

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. — Gwendoline Christie

Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother! — Milne, A. A.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime. — Jim Knight