Posts tagged ‘Writing’
Nov 14
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Oct 26
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono
Images and words are processed by, respectively, the rear and right, and left and front lobes of the human CPU. Those in this series are processed by the fan. A cool processing unit reboots all the lobes and makes your brain laugh.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
— William James
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Aug 17
“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.” — Luigi Pirandello
Created in the gaze of a starry lion in the August sky, this series explores how imagination is to nature as words and images are to the work of creation.
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
― J.G. Ballard
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Apr 6
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
— Niels Bohr
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Jan 1
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” –Thomas Mann
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 24
“Laughing without laughing is only possible with the laughing of the eyes!” –Anon.
Merry woes
Thro’ soul’s windows show
Go Ho-Ho!
In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. —Linda Ellerbee
“We’ve been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art… It doesn’t have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas” —Jorge M. Perez
El Niño
Thawing El Norte
Breaking ice
I think that I’ve tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city —Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Jan 27
“I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango” —Christopher Columbus
No visa
No baggage to drag
Travel light
For centuries, Cuba’s greatest resource has been its people —Pico Iyer
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Jan 18
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