A Quote by Camille Paglia

The Dionysian is no picnic.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
American - Author
Born: April 2, 1947

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

Julian Grenfell

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Jane Wagner

Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.

Larry Harvey

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Elizabeth Enright

Jim was Dionysus, but it took three Apollos to balance that Dionysian energy. He was a force.

John Densmore

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

John Ralston Saul

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

Steven Pressfield

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

Renzo Novatore

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are these two strands, the Dionysian and the Appollonian, and in the same theater grew up from these folks who during the day were just ordinary citizens, and at night they would sneak off to the woods and party.