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Quote by David Antin

“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”

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David Antin was an American poet, born on February 1, 1932, and passed away on October 12, 2016. His poetry is known for its unique style and philosophical insights, highly appreciated by readers and critics alike. more

“The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.”

People Looks Children Purpose Sex Business Sorry Privilege Productions License Having Children Unqualified

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.”

Sex Ready Suicide Alcohol Consolation Availability

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.”

Men Humans Children Grows Animal Rocks Adults Living Things

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.”

Want School Jobs Drama Fairs Guilt Mates Innate Not Fair

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.”

Whole Earth Lasts Young Adults Young Adult Toms Shelves Salinger

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.”

Men Mean Ends Higher

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.”

World Black Rights Rocks Poet Militant Snail

Author:Edward Abbey

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