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Early Writing QUOTES

Early Writing QUOTES

1 " I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. "

― Frank O'Hara , Early Writing

2 " If life were merely a habit, I should commit suicide; but even now, more or less desperate, I cannot but think, ‘Something wonderful may happen.’ It is not optimism, it is a rejection of self-pity (I hope) which leaves a loophole for life… I merely choose to remain living out of respect for possibility. And possibility is the great good. — Frank O’Hara, Early Writing, 108-9 (1/22/49) Bookpeople (June 1977). "

― Frank O'Hara , Early Writing

3 " In retrospect, the saddest moment of one’s life would seem to be that in which one first became aware that sensibility must be protected by intelligence if it is to survive living. It is that realization that puts the bloodshed into adolescence. And the lack of that realization makes the rest of life a bloodshed. "

― Frank O'Hara , Early Writing