Mcsweeney S Quotes

#1. You can only understand the pain of love when you fall in love with someone you cannot afford to have.

M.F. Moonzajer

#2. The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.

Loesje

#3. The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.

Sun Tzu

#4. After the most basic physical requirements are satisfied, human happiness is almost independent of wealth. A meaningful job is far more important.

Graeme Simsion

#5. People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

Joyelle McSweeney

#7. The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.

Joyelle McSweeney

#8. We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

#9. From the beginning, the imported black men and women resisted their enslavement. Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and

Anonymous

#10. Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Victoria Chang

#11. I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it ...

Zakk Wylde

#12. You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Joyelle McSweeney

#13. The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.

Joyelle McSweeney

#14. God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

C.S. Lewis

#15. I would not take one cup of coffee from a grower ... There's not a good one. I hate them. A few presents, a little talk, then the noose. That's how capitalism works.

Cesar Chavez

#16. McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

#17. As Marilyn Ferguson observed, No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.

Stephen R. Covey