Paul Klee Quotes
I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
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Those who live in memories are never really dead.
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I think you have to keep going. Otherwise, you know these fellas that say, "Boy I can't wait to retire. Boy, I'm going to be 65 years old, and I'm retiring and I'm quitting and that's it." Well, two weeks later they're saying to themselves, "What the hell am I gonna do?" And first thing you know they find themselves in a wheelchair or in a rocking chair going back and forth, back and forth, and that's the end of it. And suddenly you're dead.
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I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.
