“I am having a hallucination now, I don’t need drugs for that.” ―Thomas Pynchon
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Posts from the ‘Quotes’ Category
Nov 5
Professional actors change characters like changing costumes.
“We live on the leash of our senses.” ―Diane Ackerman
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Strain the leash or let the dogs out?
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
―John Ruskin
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.” ―Hermann Hesse
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Is there gold in the tongue that I hold?
“Be silent, or say something better than silence.”
―Pythagoras
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.” ―Jerome K. Jerome
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Idling settles the fluttering of the mind, inviting enlightenment.
Here is a koanic assist for beginners:
Three student idlers and their teacher are observing a flag in a breeze.
Each student is asked to describe his or her observation. “…And please
do not observe like a nincompoop,” the teacher warns, giving each
student a rap on the head with a stout rod as their cue to speak.
Student 1 goes, “Ow! I observe the breeze fluttering the flag.
Only a nincompoop would observe otherwise.”
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”
―Deepak Chopra
“There’s something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.” ―Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Silent talkies speak the language of black-and-white piano keys striking chords of recognition.
“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
―Raymond Chandler, Goodbye, My Lovely
“Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.” ―Jennifer Egan
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An old F*ck is as timeless as a Stone Age clock.
“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”
―Marshall McLuhan
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“In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.” ―George Bernard Shaw
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Among the ranks of angels in sanctuary niches,
everyday angels are up there in the bleachers.
“It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.”
―James Hillman
“Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.” ―Werner Herzog
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How thin the ice we skate on
Like sails of plundered ships
How sheer the veil once frozen
Pale as a nun’s handkerchief
“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” ―Toni Morrison
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