Weekend Words: Gifts
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
An exquisite corpse of apposite quotes from the Hyperallergic Weekend Editors.
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.”
—Albert Camus
“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”
—Sigmund Freud
“In this cold commodity culture
Where you lay your money down
It’s hard to even notice
That all this earth is hallowed ground …
The gift keeps moving
Never know where it’s going to land
You must stand back and let it
Keep on changing hands.”
—Bruce Cockburn, “The Gift”
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built in, shock-proof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have it.”
—Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review interview
