Self-Interview, May 10, 2014

Dear Dorothy Parker, you are such a pest. Flamingos often are. Especially the solo ones. 

 

Dear Pierre Reverdy, don’t you have any real friends?

 

That was a mercurial zeitgeist alright. It made people hot or tender. 

 

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Some say we can’t have the world and justice at the same time. I don’t agree. People who think so have never saved a dog or a child. 

 

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Beware of people who have never saved a dog or a child. 

 

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“Eat the round ones first,” (my grandfather’s last words.)

 

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“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.” (Dorothy Parker)

 

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“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.” (Pierre Reverdy)

 

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Opportunity is an intriguing word because it rises above fact to become an invitation.

 

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Dorothy Parker said she’d be happy with a diamond studded wheelchair. Now that’s capitalism. 

 

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Pierre Reverdy: “God exists only if adored.”