quote du jour

From Norman Mailer, in a thoughtful article in today’s New York Times:

“[The writer] can grow as a person or he can shrink. … His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”

I’ve also been immersed lately in Gay Daly’s wonderfully witty yet heartbreaking book, Pre-Raphaelites in Love. There are several quotes that I’ve underlined, mainly concerning the stuggles of the artist to reconcile the sometimes conflicting realities we live in — one from Charles Dickens is hilariously incisive. I will share these with you soon.

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