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Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been (Paperback) by Mark Osbaldeston bookshelves: currently-reading, design, public-library |
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06/11
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Finding God's Will for You (Paperback) by Saint Francis de Sales bookshelves: currently-reading, philosophy, religion |
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The Adventures of Augie March (Hardcover) by Saul Bellow bookshelves: currently-reading |
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"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."
— Werner Herzog
— Werner Herzog
"Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates."
— Werner Herzog
— Werner Herzog
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life--they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.
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— Gene Wolfe (Shadow & Claw)
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— Gene Wolfe (Shadow & Claw)
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
— Flannery O'Connor
— Flannery O'Connor
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
— Flannery O'Connor
— Flannery O'Connor
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