Louis Dudek Quotes

• What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

  Louis Dudek

  Forgiveness, Memories, Wells

  Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press

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• There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

  Louis Dudek

  Done, Sin, Original Sin

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• A good reputation is better than fame.

  Louis Dudek

  Reputation, Fame, Good Reputation

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• The best live among us in disguise.

  Louis Dudek

  Disguise

  Louis Dudek, Aileen Collins (1988). “In defence of art: critical essays & reviews”, Quarry Pr

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• Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

  Louis Dudek

  People, Mind, Rubbish

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

  Louis Dudek

  Spring, Race, Cities

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• Art is anything people do with distinction.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, People, Distinction

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• Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

  Louis Dudek

  Forgiveness, Law, Forgiving

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• In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.

  Louis Dudek

  Writing, Fake, Degrees

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• Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, Imagination, Should

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

  Louis Dudek

  Art, Class, Definitions

  Louis Dudek (1991). “Small perfect things”, Dc Books

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• There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.

  Louis Dudek

  Two, People, Evil

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• A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

  Louis Dudek

  Literature, Tables, Critics

  Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press

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• Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

  Louis Dudek

  Country, Book, Hockey

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• The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

  Louis Dudek

  Wonderful, Century, Capacity

  Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).

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• Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

  Louis Dudek

  Love Is, Hatred, Particular

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