Caves Quotes
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I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.
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We just want to make the walls cave in and the ceiling collapse. Music is meant to be played as loudly as possible, really raw and punchy, and I'll punch out anyone who doesn't like it the way I do.
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When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
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Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.
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Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.
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I always wanted to go in a cave.
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I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
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When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.
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To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.
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I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to the experiences and hallucinations of deep trance.
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Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
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Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
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in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
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You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.
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You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"
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Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.
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Even if you enjoy the activity of exploring caves, to be trapped and not know whether you're going to get out alive is terrifying.
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Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
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Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
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If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.
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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
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The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems.
