David Gordon Quotes

#1. But unlike the person with exquisite taste in painting or perfume, the movie nerd is classless as well. Grasping the genius of Russ Meyer or George Romero or Herschell Gordon Lewis carries no cultural cachet and gets no one laid, believe me.

David Gordon

#2. Real readers poison themselves with words. They close each book as though climbing, reborn, from a tomb.

David Gordon

#3. Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.

David Gordon

#4. This is the only boundary that nature herself imposes on us, the limitations on what we can accomplish, in space and time, with one body and one life.

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#5. What are other people to us? Material. The stuff of our work. Whom do we love more, the girl or the portrait, the thing we've made of her? We artists, we're not quite human, are we? We love no one.

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#6. I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?

David Gordon