SABINE TROENDLE

John Fante, Selected Letters 1932 – 1981

The top 0.1 percent – those 152,000 people who make more than 5.6 million dollars a year – have seen their income level jump up 385 percent.

The wealthiest in this country have never had it so good.

But the wealthy are scared. They fear the taxes.

“As a businessman, I cannot afford another tax increase. By the time I feed my family, I have maybe 400,000 Dollars left over.”

The Republicans don’t talk about the poor much, except to say they can be saved by capitalism.

They like the idea of eliminating welfare, as it creates a culture of dependency.

“Taking your own risk, that’s what freedom’s all about.” – A Republican presidential candidate responds to the question of what to do about a person who has no health insurance and winds up in a coma.

The Democrats haven’t showered themselves with glory when it comes to dealing with poverty, either. They basically have stopped talking about the subject.

All Information found in the magazine “The Progressive” November 2011 issue. And of course, the quotes are taken out of the bigger context.

The only way to get somewhere is to figure out where you’re going before you go there.

But this is wrong.

It misses the whole point.

If you follow your own instincts, the world just can’t touch you.

And she gets this funny feeling she can do anything.

Just drifting around.

And all of a sudden she knows: she can do anything.

The will to achieve. The sacredness of achievement in the form of giving your best.

She always liked that more than the will to win, for there can be achievement in defeat just as well.

And she knows, she should run.

Just like a boxer trains for a fight, a photographer does so by walking the streets, and watching and taking pictures, and coming home and going out the next day, the same thing again, taking pictures. It doesn’t matter how many he takes, or if he takes any at all. It gets you prepared to know what you should take pictures of or what is the right thing to do and when.

Robert Frank, Artist

If you have opinions, you cannot see.

Joe Strummer, Musician

Everything was about to happen, and nothing actually did.

John Fante, Writer

Define. Be somebody. Make a statement.

John Burnet, Art Agent

It’s just intimate experiences translated into public expression.

Visitor at the museum explaining art

If I can do it, it’s not art.

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

Nothing happened and then something happened.

Jake Silverstein, Writer

You have to know how to look at it. You have to slow down. It isn’t pretty, but it’s beautiful

Kent Haruf, Writer

I like the word SO.

We have a song IF.

Ed Rusha, Artist and Anthony Kiedis, Musician

I like the elitism of the art world, and I like the idea that it has only to appeal to a tiny group of people. I think the Art for the People is a terrible idea. They generally have contempt for contemporary art. To see contemporary, you have to look in a different way and you have to learn how to talk, learn a different vocabulary. And I think, most people are not willing to do that.

John Waters, Artist

And still, there lies poetic strength in this indisputable tautology as always, when there’s nothing to comprehend.

Jean Baudrillard, Philosopher

Woman sitting behind the counter of her Shoe Repair Store.

Man standing at the counter of his Hat Making Store.

Teacher and her student sitting in a study booth.

Musician looking at his instrument.

Woman waiting on the phone.

Painter crouching down in front of his paintings.

Man sitting in his car.

Man standing in the field.

Woman looking out of the kitchen window.

Woman sitting and waiting.

Man sitting and waiting.

Man looking at a tree trunk.

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