Quotes - Ben Loory (Los Angeles, CA) Showing 1-30 of 39

#1

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

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#2

“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement. ”
― Max Ernst

tags: art, self-awareness, self-discovery, self-reflection

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#3

“I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Little Something For Us Tempunauts

tags: not-so-cheerful

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#4

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

tags: death, life

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#5

“The universe is a machine for the making of Gods.”
― Henri Bergson

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#6

“The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.”
― Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Grande Sertao: Veredas

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#7

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life

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#8

“I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.”
― Harlan Ellison

tags: money

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#9

“I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.”
― Clarice Lispector

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#10

“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#11

“My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.”
― Kit Reed, The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories

tags: wherein-we-enter-the-museum

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#12

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

31234 likes

#13

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

tags: art, humor, life

2457 likes

#14

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”
― John Ashbery

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#15

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.”
― Stephen Crane, Open Boat

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#16

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

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#17

“The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor-children

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#18

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#19

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

8463 likes

#20

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

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#21

“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

tags: art, haunted, house, nature

1040 likes

#22

“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”
― Charles Fort

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#23

“No heart is so hard as the timid heart.”
― Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son

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#24

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

tags: wisdom

3153 likes

#25

“Beware the ire of the calm.”
― Muriel Spark

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#26

“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”
― Mark Leidner, The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover

tags: aphorisms, writing

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#27

“It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.”
― Karel Čapek, Cross Roads

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