Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
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We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
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So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
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I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Amanda thought about her addiction to being on the move. about whether she was running away or running toward.
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I think our biggest goal is to laugh.
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To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
