Author: C.K. Stead

Cites

• Paul Valley (1)
  • IN: Book Self (2008) Non-Fiction , NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Think, too, that of all the arts, ours is the one that cordinates the greatest number of independent parts: sound, sense, the real and the imaginary, logic, syntax, and the double invention of content and form -- all this by means of that essentially practical, constantly changing, always dirty-fingered maid-of-all work the common language, from which we must draw a pure, ideal Voice capable of communicating... an idea of self miraculously superior to ME.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Italo Calvino (1)
  • IN: Book Self (2008) Non-Fiction , NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I would like to be Mercutio [...] the voice of reason amid the fanatical hatreds of the Capulets and Montagues. He sticks to the old code of chivalry at the price of his life, perhaps just for the sake of style, and yet he is a modern man, sceptical and ironic.
    FROM: Hermit in Paris, (1994), NULL, Italy
• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: Book Self (2008) Non-Fiction , NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The ego is not master in its own house.
    FROM: A Difficulty in the Path of Psychoanalysis, (1917), Essay, Austria