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rida446: "Every word we utter is but the utterance of a drowsy phantom in our blood — For this reason in rare moments of self-consciousness our voice sounds strange, far away, not ours. It is the sudden perception of that great truth: We are not ourselves."
- Benjamin De Casseres,
CrushnPain: 8. Taxicab Confessions (HBO, 1995–2006)
9. Benjamin De Casseres, “Renaissance of the Masher and Swashbuckler,” New York Times Book Review and Magazine, October 9, 1921, 2,
CrushnPain: VICARIOUSLY
My eyes are tired of looking at things they do not see;
My ears are broken with the sounds they cannot hear;
My heart is swollen with the dolour of the times—
Another drop within this jar would o’erbrim the edge of sanity.
-Benjamin De Casseres, September 1919
CrushnPain: “Of course, all history is fiction… And Life itself is a fiction, a dream, maybe, in the brain of a god getting over his evening souse.”
—Benjamin De Casseres, “Wasting Time in the Parlor-Car,” Judge, February 12, 1921
fullegoism: 539 Chiron the Centaur, by Benjamin de Casseres • Immediatism via /r/fullegoism
HalideAtes: Benjamin De Casseres early th century journalist critic and individualist anarchist
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KarlaClaire616: New York Is Hell: Thinking and Drinking in the Beautiful Beast
by Benjamin De Casseres
h3athrow: "[A]ll wisdom is relative to our temperaments. ... [M]y wisdom may not be your wisdom, for all wisdom is scrap-wisdom." -- Benjamin De Casseres
lennart_1968: 6/
Whatever tends to automatism, mass-movement, likeness, peace, parasitic life, unity, is retrogressive.
One is life; the other is death."
Benjamin De Casseres "The Individual Against Moloch"
CrushnPain: “This table can be raided and emptied in one minute.”
—Benjamin De Casseres, ‘Taking Sobriety’s Pulse,’ New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1920
rlgransden: 4 of 5 stars to The Shadow-Eater by Benjamin De Casseres
QuoteResearch: I would take charge of the constellations if I were asked to do it. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure
Mark Twain? Benjamin De Casseres? Richard Grant White? Mary Hallock Foote? Cordelia Foote? Apocryphal?
CrushnPain: wag their tails in thanks and rush on to another way station.”
—Benjamin De Casseres, “Lost Corners of New York,” 19 June 1921 2/2
portallivreiros: [Antonio Dias de Souza] Alliance Revolution: The New Shape of Business Rivalry (Benjamin Gomes-Casseres) [Harvard University, 1996]
CrushnPain: “It is said that Christ—like all ‘saviors’—came to redeem man. Spinoza was born for a different purpose. He came to redeem God.” —Benjamin De Casseres, “Spinoza: Liberator of God and Man” (1933)
JackManyDavies: A study of history reveals a stupendous charlatanism. The study of religions reveals the inherent quackery of human belief. The history of human ideals is a history of pretence, fraud, self hypnosis. - Benjamin De Casseres
2ideality: Benjamin De Casseres is interesting on his own. Here an interesting article on Jews. He was of Sephardic descent.
JamesGeary: Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead. —Benjamin de Casseres
D_Dionysian: A most aesthetically pleasing gift from a Dionysian reader, a 1923 copy of Benjamin de Casseres' The Shadow-Eater. What a cover! What a writer, indeed.
Utterlt delightful 1917 review of it here:
Sadafsh40058534: “Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.” ~ Benjamin De Casseres
Kritika_Kamra: “Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.” ~ Benjamin De Casseres
D_Dionysian: This one I am scanning pour vous. Contributions by wondrous et gifted writers (!) including de Casseres. Editor of Papyrus, a Magazine of Individuality, was Michael Monohan (Benjamin's dear friend, whose work we are collecting, archiving etc.)
birdmoths: On the other hand, I found an aphorism that aged pretty well since 1922:
"Pontius Pilate was the first great neutral; having washed his hands of the whole matter, he then went to his broker's and invested in crosses" (Benjamin De Casseres)
NinaAntonia13: Cherry Blossom Lane, Blackpool: 'Reason is frost in the Garden of Dreams' - Benjamin De Casseres. Whatever you are doing, be safe, be well, be happy x
religulous: "My studies in speculative philosophy,
metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese." ~Benjamin De Casseres (1873–1945), American journalist and author
tnchann: H. Allen Smith interviews Benjamin De Casseres--who owned a portrait of Nietzsche--about the Crazy 1920s.
The Pittsburgh Press. 21 Sep 1931, p. 19.
iVanENight: "We take from you what we need and we hurl back in your face what we do not need. Stone by stone we shall remove Al...
RainTaxiReview: Read about forgotten critic Benjamin De Casseres in our new print issue:
manas_akram: Benjamin De Casseres Poetry, Shadow Eaters, 1915 Limited edition
1jedi2: Ÿ“· churchofsatannews: The Bowery Boys Review "New York is Hell" ( Benjamin De Casseres, Peggy Nadramia)...
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thekorvin: From ChironThe Centaur, by Benjamin De Casseres.
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aliner: Benjamin De Casseres: "Hope is the promise of a crucifixion."
Just in case anyone was feeling giddy.
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