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Formative Quotes (page 25)

Alan Moore quote: "Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and..."
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. Alan Moore
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "An excess of reason is itself a form of madness"
An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Kim Stanley Robinson
Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl. Jodi Picoult
Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new. Thomas Merton
You understand the fundamental principle of an icon, don’t you? “Inspired by God” “Not made by hands” “Supposedly directly imprinted upon the background material by God Himself” All Icons fundamentally were the work of God. A revelation in material form. And sometimes new icon could be made from another simply by pressing a new cloth to the original and a magic transfer would occur. Anne Rice
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form. Georges Bataille
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval. Charles Sanders Peirce
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughte? Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gol?... Alan Moore
Augusto Roa Bastos quote: "It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to..."
It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition. Augusto Roa Bastos
Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life. Lester Bangs
At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins. W. G. Sebald
Khalil Gibran quote: "Remembrance is a form of meeting."
Remembrance is a form of meeting. Khalil Gibran
Gilles Deleuze quote: "An image of thought called philosophy has been formed..."
An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking. Gilles Deleuze
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing.. Nicholas Sparks

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