Brion Gysin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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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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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.
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I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.
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I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!
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I always come back around. I make it work.
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Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
