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| The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. | | Uncategorized | |
| The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. | | Uncategorized | |
| The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture. | | Uncategorized | |
| The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. | | Uncategorized | |
| The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it. | | Uncategorized | |
| There has been a lot of acquisition interest in Polaroid, ... There is no reason to believe that the filing of Chapter 11 would deter these potential purchasers or investors from proceeding. Indeed, it is often the case that Chapter 11 enhances the prospect for sale. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. | | Uncategorized | |
| This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. | | Uncategorized | |
| To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in | | Uncategorized | |
| Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. | | Uncategorized | |
| True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. | | Dedication; Strength; Truth | |
| Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. | | Uncategorized | |
