Eliot Weinberger Quotes

#1. Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Eliot Weinberger

#2. At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

John Godfrey Saxe

#3. Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.

Tupac Shakur

#4. William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: "You know those poems you're writing? They're no good."

Eliot Weinberger

#5. Going to open a quaint little bookshop and have a niche section called "Men's Interests" where we shelve the Western Cannon.

Alana Massey

#6. A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings

Neal Stephenson

#7. Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

Ann Brashares

#8. Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs