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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I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.
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We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.
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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?
