Quotes About Whitehead

Alma used the word settled the way less genteel people used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

The championship would be their sole acquaintance with justice at Nickel.

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universities.

Roger Tipple did not have a weak chin so much as a very aggressive neck.

Rumors have flourished in worse soil than this.

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue.

brought down the roof of the doghouse, and a squeal from the dog, who had just had his tail

the buttons of his dark blue uniform allude to an ongoing border dispute with his soft belly.

Alma used the word settled the way the less genteel used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.

I was a skinny guy, but I was morbidly obese with doom.

Do we judge a man by the weight of the envelope-or whom he gives it to?

Some people don't like my fiction, because they prefer the nonfiction. But moving around keeps the work fresh for me and, hopefully, for my one or two readers who follow me from book to book!

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Life is not a sort of quasi-interiority, it is only a fold, the reality of a process, as Whitehead would say, in observable up close.

There is a ti,e inherent to Nature. This time, in Whitehead, is inherent to the things, it embaces us, to the extent that we participate in the things, or that we take part in the process of Nature. It is essential for us, but insofar as we are Nature. Subjectivity is caught up in the system of a cosmic time, in a subjectivity of Nature.