Brion Gysin Quotes
Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.
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He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.
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Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.
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New York is a fun place to shoot, but it's definitely hectic.
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But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
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What worries me is to be in the best physical form to score goals.
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The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
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Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.
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But what world says that I'm wicked? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go.
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Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
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Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
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Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?
