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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The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced by the nature of each medium. Each means of expression has its own order of being, its own units.
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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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I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.
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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.
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I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
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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?
