Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us. - Herbert Gold
If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
- Herbert Gold
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. - Herbert Gold
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. - Herbert Gold
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy … - Herbert Gold
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy …
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. - Herbert Gold
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of h… - Herbert Gold
The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of h…
Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it. - Herbert Gold
Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk - Herbert Gold
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use… - Herbert Gold
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use…
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