A GROWING LIBRARY OF VERIFIED QUOTES

A GROWING LIBRARY OF VERIFIED QUOTES

A GROWING LIBRARY OF VERIFIED QUOTES

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Handwritten corrections on typed work (stuff crossed out, added, words respelled) are not only accepted but encouraged, since they’re usually signs of sedulous proofreading. Better right than neat (as long as it’s readable).

David Foster Wallace

Syllabus for David Foster Wallace’s class “English 102-Literary Analysis: Prose Fiction Fall ’94,” Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin; link here

Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

Werner Herzog

Curriculum / Rules for Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.

Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog describing his Rogue Film School.

We continually forgot the two golden rules of argument-free road tripping: eat when hungry; nap when tired.

Bill Roorbach

Summers with Juliet (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992), 49.