David Antin Quotes - Page 2

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• It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

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  Character, Mouths, Novel

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• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

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  Lying, Men, White

  David Antin (1976). “Talking at the boundaries”, W W Norton & Co Inc

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• Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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  Real, Ideas, Made

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• Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

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  Meaningful, Children, Sight

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• I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

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  Long, Format, Prose

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• I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

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  Kids, College, Ideas

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• I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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  Writing, Remember, Imagine

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• I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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  Thinking, Newton, James Watt

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• I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

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  Believe, Thinking, Focus

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• The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

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  Pieces, World, Entertainment

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• Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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  Different, Stories, Narrative

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