A Place to Remember

Virginia Woolf’s New Years Resolutions for 1931: “To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, I think to buy good ones.”

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“I want to see things. This is the only thing I can relate to.” — Carlo Scarpa

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“All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.” — Samuel Beckett

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“We always thought that art was a calling. We were very romantic in our youth. We really thought that people made music and made art and wrote stories because they were the psychic therapists of the clan, of the tribe. It was their job to try and make sense of existence. In that way, art was like a holy calling, and artists were shamen.

Years later, we were shocked to realise that it was primarily about commerce, and that we were looked at with anger and horror simply for being idealistic and utopian.

And everything we’ve done has been about my disenchanted reaction to the commercialisation of the divine… It’s self-explanatory. You can never relax and think you’ve figured it all out. It really is a process of infinite re-evaluation day by day.” — Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, September 2013

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“I pull up swagless into this sauceless void.” — Sam Kriss, In My Zombie Era

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“The rizz was non-existent. The ozempic face, flaring. And the charisma is that of an exhausted undertaker on their last corpse of the day.” — Mike Pepi on the Cuomo “In It to Win It” video

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“What is history other than memory without pain?” — Rachel Cusk, Kudos

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“It’s still true that most Americans care more about the price of meat than they do about the exploitation of Bolivian miners.” — Frederik Rzewski, 1976

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“To be female is to let someone else do your desiring for you, at your own expense.” — Andrea Long Chu, Females

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“On a torture instrument called an accordion I stretch my bones into fingers of a witch. My guts have been emptied like bellows for the best sound.” — Valzhyna Mort, Music for the Dead and Resurrected

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“Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of all virtue.” — Gustave Flaubert, in a letter to George Sand

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“A poet is a waste-good and an unthrift, in that he is born to make the taverns rich and himself a beggar.” — Robert Greene, according to David Markson

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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O’Connor