"Imagination is like the drunk man who lost……" — Guy Davenport
"Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it."
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20 Quotes by Guy Davenport
Guy Davenport has 20 quotes on this site.
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Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it…
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The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
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Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.
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A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.
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We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.
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There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of…
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In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
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It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of…
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I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
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When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment,…
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More Drunk Quotes
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one of 1,185 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
— Isaac Asimov
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
— Edward Abbey
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just…
— Chester Bennington
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
— Jim Bishop
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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
— Humphrey Bogart
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
— Ray Bradbury
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the…
— Joyce Brothers
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
— Charles Bukowski
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