Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
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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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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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And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.
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Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth’s resources and living processes.
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People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.
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I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.
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Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
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If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
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I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.
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Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
