Quotes by James Purdy

James Purdy

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

Dope

Poison

Race

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

America

Fraud

Huge

As always, I wonder if I’ll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that’s because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it’s really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence.

New York

Stupid

Summer

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, “completely turned to rock.” The critics here are that way.

Feelings

New York

Rocks

I am against all machines. It’s no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

Dope

Goes On

Machines

I don’t have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I’m more interested in the past.

Ghost

Home

Past

I don’t think it’s like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It’s really another form of cancer, television.

Cancer

Television

Thinking

I think America, really, is over.

America

Thinking

I think fame is something that you’ve achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

People

Self

Thinking

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don’t mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it’s a poison, and coffee’s a poison, but the Americans lie so.

Coffee

Lying

Marijuana

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Alive

America

Artist

Believe

Book

Brain

Broken

Broken Down

Cancer

Coffee

Dope

Egomaniacs

Fashion

Feelings

Fighting

Firsts

Fraud

Ghost

Goes On

Hard Work

Haze

Home

Huge

Ideas

Illiterate

Insensitive

Journalist

Kicking

Known

Looks

Lying

Machines

Marijuana

New York

Past

People

Poison

Race

Rocks

Running

Self

Sentimental

Sentimentality

Sticks

Stupid

Summer

Television

Thinking

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Quotes by James Purdy

James Purdy

Actually, television tells you to take dope. It tells you to destroy the human race really, by first having more consumers and then consuming more poison and then making the whole planet uninhabitable.

Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud.

Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, “completely turned to rock.” The critics here are that way.

I am against all machines. It’s no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I don’t have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I’m more interested in the past.

I don’t think it’s like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It’s really another form of cancer, television.

I think America, really, is over.

I think fame is something that you’ve achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I wish people would call poisons poison. I don’t mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it’s a poison, and coffee’s a poison, but the Americans lie so.

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