Margins Quotes
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I like being on the margins. You work better there.
billy childish— Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.
— Letter to an unidentified friend (1489), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.
martin firrell— quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005)
I see art-making, especially that which comes from the margins of the mainstream, as a site of resistance, a way of interrupting and intervening in those historical and cultural fields that continually exclude me, a sort of gathering of forces on the borders. For the dominant hegemonic stance that has worked to silence and subdue gender and ethnic difference has also silenced difference based on sexual preference.
— From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick (ISBN 0-500-20393-8)
The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.
thomas keneally— Ch. 31 (Schindler's Ark (1982))
I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.
erik naggum— Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (Usenet article)
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
j. g. ballard— "Fictions of Every Kind" in Books and Bookmen (February 1971)
One would almost think that they [straight white males] felt empowered to take anything the society produced, no matter how marginal, and utilize it for their own ends dare we say "exploit it"? certainly to take advantage of it as long as it's around. And could this possibly be an effect of discourse? Perhaps it might even be one we on the margins might reasonably appropriate to our profit... or perhaps some of us already have.
samuel r. delany— The Rhetoric of Sex, The Discourse of Desire
