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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.


Charles Ives


#cannot #corner #hope #off #reality

I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.


Bill Lee


#burn #cosmic #earth #few #get

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.


William McFee


#bluff #choose #collateral #efficiency #fame

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.


David Millar


#cheat #cheaters #dictates #glory #going

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.


Roberto Unger


#away #good #life #supreme #vitality

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.


Kim Stanley Robinson


#vitality #wisdom #youth #age

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.


Oscar Wilde


#invitation #humor

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.


Lois McMaster Bujold


#death-before-dishonor #in-the-end #inevitable #oaths #the-dead

The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death.


Ahmadou Kourouma


#inevitability #death

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.


Don DeLillo


#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death






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