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For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new. Bertolt Brecht
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Robert Anton Wilson quote: "I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions."
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions. Robert Anton Wilson
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. Don DeLillo
Andre Gide quote: "Everything's already been said, but since nobody was..."
Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again. Andre Gide
Paul Valery quote: "At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body,..."
At the end of the mind, the body. But at the end of the body, the mind. Paul Valery
It's very much like you're trying to reach Infinity. You know it's there, but you just don't know where--but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. Norton Juster
Orson Scott Card quote: "Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your..."
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. Orson Scott Card
Erich Maria Remarque quote: "You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one..."
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that. Erich Maria Remarque
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. Woody Allen
Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. Ronald Reagan
My dear Homer, if you are really only once removed from the truth, with reference to virtue, instead of being twice removed and the manufacturer of a phantom, according to our definition of an imitator, and if you need to be able to distinguish between the pursuits which make men better or worse, in private and in public, tell us what city owes a better constitution to you, as Lacedaemon owes hers to Lycurgus, and as many cities, great and small, owe theirs to many other legislators? What... Plato
Karl Marx quote: "Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their..."
Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing. Karl Marx
No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine. Herman Hesse
When an individual is motivated by great and powerful convictions of truth, then he disciplines himself, not because of the demands of the church, but because of the knowledge within his heart Gordon B. Hinckley

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