Scraps, quotes

Couple of quotes that are very important to me...

"Be wrong! Be wrong!!"

And, something like, "Tropez la racine", a very translation, v bad French, which means, "Cut off the root".

I can't recall at this time who uttered these words; some French artiste, I believe.  I knwo that I have these written down somewhere, in the 'long files'.

I look for inspiration anywhere, in my quest to move from Dreamer to Doer, from dreamer lost in revery to man of action.  There is in me a drive to write down so that I can prove my ideas are 'right'.  That is an artistic fraudulence, for Art demands of the artist that he have the courage to 'be wrong'.
See, Like Jack Kerouac sayed, "All of the things I wrote were true, because I believed in what I saw'. Now, as far as others are concerned, what he saw was wrong, he didn't get the facts right, he didn't know what he was talking about...but they are too concerned with 'real', and not looking for evidence of imagination at play in the mind of the writer.
As for, 'cut off the root', what that means is cut off the terrible weight of the past, and find the courage to re-imagine everything, with the vision of Today.  Forget who you were, what you did, ignore who you think you are, today, and take courage and move forward! that is called, by me, Life.
Else lose all currency.  Dead, emotionless, spiritless examination of past events has a name, and it is called, 'History'; it strives to objectivity, concreteness...
There is my trap, as a trained historian, that is the temptation, to merely assemble and record undisputed facts.

And here is Jack London:  "It is always easy to tell a man how to play his hand at cards.  Take that hand and play it yourself.  Get up; wake up; kick in; do something.  A man who does not do anything is usually a critic.  Deliver the goods; come across; arise, or be forever damned."

"On s'engage et puis on voit."  Napoleon ("You have only to engage.")

'Do' anything, but do something.