1959

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Catharine Carver. 27 Mar. 1959.

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Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

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Gide, Andre. "Portraits and Aphorisms: An Unprejudiced Mind." Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, edited by Justin O'Brien. Secker & Warburg/Meridian Books, 1959.

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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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Miró, Joan. Interviewed by Yvon Taillandier. 1958.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs, William Seward. The Naked Lunch. Olympia Press/Grove Press, 1959, appendix.

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Adorno, Theodor. Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [The Meaning of Working Through the Past]. 1959.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

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Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of how We Won the Vote. Hutchinson, 1959, ch. 5.

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Klee, Paul. Quoted in Klee, written by Susanna Partsch. Taschen, 2015. Originally a diary entry, 16 Apr. 1914.