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Workings Quotes (page 176)

Neil Gaiman quote: "Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can...."
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. Neil Gaiman
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order. Albert Einstein
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you. Paramahansa Yogananda
E. B. White quote: "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work..."
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. E. B. White
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
Antonin Artaud quote: "I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate..."
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself Antonin Artaud
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well. Tom Robbins
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic. Edward Abbey
Margaret Atwood quote: "Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood
the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery. Tom Stoppard
…Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn’t work. Pretending to be someone other than yourself only broadens the distance between the person you are and the one with whom you’re trying to establish closeness. Mary Manin Morrissey
I’d spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny. Michael Chabon
Agriculture must mediate between nature and the human community, with ties and obligations in both directions. To farm well requires an elaborate courtesy toward all creatures, animate and inanimate. It is sympathy that most appropriately enlarges the context of human work. Contexts become wrong by being too small - too small, that is, to contain the scientist or the farmer or the farm family or the local ecosystem or the local community - and this is crucial. Wendell Berry
the planned Chinese economy, by refusing to allow federated groups to organize their work autonomously, condemns itself to become another example of the perfected form of capitalism called socialism. Raoul Vaneigem
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say. Jodi Picoult

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