Lezama Lima Quotes

#1. If you must go nowhere, step out.

Jose Lezama Lima

#2. He tries to force the anger down, but it's like an anvil on his chest. He closes his eyes, like Sammy taught him, and forces the anvil up; he softens.

Chris Crutcher

#3. The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

Jose Lezama Lima

#4. My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.

Chris Gethard

#5. Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need.

D.T. Suzuki

#6. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

Jose Lezama Lima

#7. The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,
for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

Jose Lezama Lima

#8. Odette nodded at my notebook, where I was writing as she spoke. 'Do the people in America really want to read this? People tell me to write these things down, but it's written inside of me. I almost hope for the day when I can forget.

Philip Gourevitch

#9. Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

Homer

#10. The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Bill Gates

#11. The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

Jose Lezama Lima

#12. I am a work in progress.

Violet Yates