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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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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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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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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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?
