Brion Gysin Quotes
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
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It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
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I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
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Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.
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I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
