Vincent Zandri > Vincent's Quotes

“Sleeping with another girl does not always mean you are a lesbian, sometimes it just means the central heating needs fixing”
― Amy Mah, Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Because when it comes to memories, what counts is not accuracy, but the feelings they call up.”
― Vincent Zandri, The Innocent

“I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn't become an artist overnight. First you have to be crushed, to have your conflicting points of view annihilated. You have to be wiped out as a human being in order to be born again an individual. You have to be carbonized and mineralized in order to work upwards from the last common denominator of the self. You have to get beyond pity in order to feel from the very roots of your being.”
― Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

“I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.”
― Norman Mailer