All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
David BowieRead
There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a feeling of emptiness or disillusionment, suggesting a lack of fulfillment.
David Bowie's quote 'There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all' evokes a profound sense of emptiness or dissatisfaction. It implies that despite experiencing life and its pleasures, there is a void or a feeling of something missing, which may resonate with those who feel unfulfilled or disillusioned by their experiences. This sentiment can be seen as a critique of superficial pleasures or experiences that fail to provide deeper satisfaction.
In practice
Using this quote during a conversation about life's deeper meaning.
All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
Nothing prepared me for your smile
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.
There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert.
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