Project Artichoke Quotes & Sayings

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get. — David Foster Wallace

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. — Simone Weil

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky. — Janice Mirikitani

The loudmouthed pervert loudly, pervertedly, strode in, spewing his loud, perverted oratory the entire way. It — Satoshi Wagahara

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. — Francesco Guicciardini

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. — Kurt Cobain

Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)
As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57 — Orit Badouk Epstein

Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. — Robert Fitzgerald

If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory. — Lise Arin