A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.
James Joyce, in conversation with Carl Jung:)Literary artists know more about the human mind than you fellers have a hope in hell of knowing. Ha. My craft is ebbing. I am yung and easily freudened. On...
Человек, выбравший Зло, в определенной степени лучше того, кого принудили к Добру.
But,brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the cause of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick... more badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockie...
Tudod – mondta –, arra ment ki az egész, hogy megtudjuk, mi mindent lehet pénzen megvenni. Egyszer egy ember azt mondta, hogy ha aggódunk a világ sorsa miatt, megbolondulunk, próbáljunk meg inkább kel...
There is the devastatingly simple, yet profound, moral dilemma, which underlies the book: is it better for a man to choose to be bad than to be conditioned to be good?
There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.
The religious impulse can be very dangerous. It damages, sometimes permanently.
The question is whether such a technique can really make a man good. Goodness comes from within, 6655321. Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thou...
Pero hermanos, este morderse las uñas acerca de la causa de la maldad es lo que me da verdadera risa. No les preocupa saber cuál es la causa de la bondad, y entonces, ¿por qué quieren averiguar el otr...
Never,' I said. 'One can die but once. Dim died before he was born. That red red krovvy will soon stop.
My book was Kennedyan and accepted the notion of moral progress. What was really wanted was a Nixonian book with no shred of optimism in it. Let us have evil prancing on the page... up to the very las...
Life to most of us is just a jumble of sensations, like a very bad film with no plot, no real beginning and end.
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the boo...
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about t...
I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies.
Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?
Добро надо избрать. Лишившись возможности выбора, человек перестает быть человеком.
Özgür irade ile seçilen kötülük, organize güçler tarafından kişiye dayatılan deterministik iyilikten daha mı insancadır ?