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Nothing has happened until it's described.
—Virginia Woolfe

Keeping an open mind is important, but not so open that your brain falls out.
—James Oberg, space engineer

I am for those tiny invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets . . . yet which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of human pride.
—Henry James

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get from it, but what they become by it.
—John Ruskin

To change one's life:
Start immediately.
Do it flamboyently.
No exceptions.
—Henry James

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
—Martin Luther King

The artist is willing to give all his or her strength and life to probing with blunt instruments those same secrets no one can describe any way but with the instruments’ faint tracks.
—Annie Dillard

In ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined turn out to be the same world.
—Clifford Geertz

A space is never about one thing. It is a place for many senses: sight, sound, touch and the unaccountable things that happen in between.
—Tadeo Ando

The impulse to create begins—often terribly and fearfully—in a tunnel of silence.
Adrienne Rich

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror we're still just able to bear
—Rainer Maria Rilke

American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake.
—Umberto Eco

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
—Adrienne Rich

It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth.
—Terrence McKenna

We are losing our ability to imagine and that is the quickest way of losing sight of the truth.
—Paul Bowles

The greatest distance between people is not space but culture.
—Jamake Highwater

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A cynic is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
—Sidney J Harris

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
—James Branch Cabell

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
—Albert Einstein

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover there is no reason.
—John Cage

Sex is the most compressed set of circumstances that we've got. Everything is in that collision.
—Arthur Miller

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
—Carrie Fisher

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream by night.
—Edgar Allan Poe

Sanity is madness put to good uses.
—George Santayana

Appealing work spaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
—Annie Dillard

Experience is what you have when what you expect doesn't happen.
—Lee Shulman

Quotes

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rather than pushed by our memories.
—Jesse Jackson

Boredom is only another name for a certain species of frustration.
— Susan Sontag

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
—Noam Chomsky

Against the irrationality of violence, it is necessary to propose the irrationality of forgiveness.
— Lionel Navarez

The truth will set you free. But first,it will piss you off.
—Gloria Steinem

I think that there is far too much work done in the world.
— Bertrand Russell
- In Praise of Idleness -

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
—Twyla Tharp

As the shadow follows the body
As we think, so we become
—Buddha

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
—Buckminster Fuller

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
—Jane Wagner