“You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.” ThinkingWritingLongBookDreamRealizingSleepKnowingGrowingAnxietyWake UpInventionNervousEtcNervesPerpetualNot KnowingStemStrainFinishing Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.” MenMindMeanPlayDreamActionCertainEmotionMeditationSubjectsEffectsKeysNervousCertaintyAnalysisAbstractBentPsychicsIrresistibleKeyboardsDominatingTheoristsSensuousWagnerBaudelaire Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.” ThinkingMenWayMayDreamNextNationsNumbersHavensObjectsBecomingFemaleCourtAtheistSupremeNervousSeatsPotSenatorsSupreme CourtSpoilCountingLatinoMeltingAmbiguousEdgyMelting Pot Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.” MenDreamPoliticalSocialChangeStruggleEconomicCreatingMen And WomenCrisisNervousTrendsBreakdownEcologicalNervous BreakdownEcological Crisis Author:Bella Abzug