Padgett Powell Quotes
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
Padgett Powell
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
Adam Davidson
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
Sam Shepard
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
J. D. Vance
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We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
Marianne Williamson
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No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
William Cowper
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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
Rumi
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
Saint Ambrose
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
Padgett Powell