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To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Death Life

It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Avant Garde Creative Creative Process Creative Quotes Creativity Creativity And Attitude Desiderata Eudaimonia Eudamonia Happiness Originality Passion Philosophy

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Joyce Masurbation Proust Sex

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Attention Culture Entitlement Rights Society

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Literature Religion

However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Commotion Detachment Solitude

Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down. This person must be a dangerous lunatic or a prisoner sentenced to solitary confinement. If a free agent, then a panty-sniffing loser shunned by society, or a psycho planning to return to college with an automatic weapon and a backpack full of ammo.

~ Michael Foley

Michael Foley Solitude
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