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For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. Ever — C.S. Lewis

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. — Andrei Codrescu

Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money. — Andrei Codrescu

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable. — Andrei Codrescu

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own. — Andrei Codrescu

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place. — Andrei Codrescu

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy. — Gillian Jacobs

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. — Andrei Codrescu

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu

Death is not enough for such men. We must add mechanics — Andrei Codrescu

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens. — Anaxagoras

If I could know me, I could know the universe. — Shirley Maclaine

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu

How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined. — Andrei Codrescu

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls. — Andrei Codrescu

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks. — Steve Maraboli

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning. — Andrei Codrescu

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu

God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels — Kathryn Kuhlman

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory. — Andrei Codrescu

Only the poor can create art. — Andrei Codrescu

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold. — Andrei Codrescu

Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex. — Andrei Codrescu

Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living. — Andrei Codrescu

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically. — Andrei Codrescu

This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time. — Andrei Codrescu

Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party. — Andrei Codrescu