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“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”
― James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-- unless, of course, I address myself as an other.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

“For the first three months, I place each student at a table with a thousand pieces of white paper and a trash can underneath. Every day they have to sit at the table for several hours and write ideas. They put the ideas they like on the right side of the table; the ones they don’t like, they put in the trash. But we don’t throw out the trash. After three months, I only take the ideas from the trash can. I don’t even look at the ideas they liked. Because the trash can is a treasure trove of things they’re afraid to do.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“What you’re doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“Some couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“I always question artists who are successful in whatever they do—I think what that means is that they’re repeating themselves and not taking enough risks.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“When I was young it was impossible for me to talk to people. Now I can stand in front of three thousand people without any notes, any preconception of what I’m going to say, even without visual material, and I can look at everyone in the audience and talk for two hours easily. What happened? Art happened.”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“We had no money, but I felt we were rich: the pleasure of having some pecorino cheese, a few garden-grown tomatoes, and a liter of olive oil; of making love in the car, with Alba just sleeping quietly in the corner, was beyond wealth. There is no price for that. It was so impossibly beautiful - all three of us breathing the same rhythm, the days going by...”
― Marina Abramović, Walk Through Walls: A Memoir

“There is no possibility of conversation with a loudspeaker.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“The strategy of infinite players is horizontal. They do not go to meet putative enemies with power and violence, but with poiesis and vision. They invite them to become a people in passage. Infinite players do not rise to meet arms with arms; instead, they make use of laughter, vision, and surprise to engage the state and put its boundaries back into play.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

“It is, therefore, this fluidity that presents us with an unavoidable challenge: how to contain the serious within the truly playful; that is, how to keep all our finite games in infinite play.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games

“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The ghost sonata

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
― Dorothy Day

“We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“Through butchering, animals become absent referents. Animals and name and body are made absent as animals for meat to exist. Animals' lives precede and enable the existence of meat. If animals are alive they cannot be meat. Thus a dead body replaces the live animal. Without animals there would be no meat eating, yet they are abent from the act of eating meat because they have been transformed into food (51).”
― Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“To be rather than to seem.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“If we want a spaceship built or the distance of a star measured, we call in the experts. But when we want something really important done, we collect twelve ordinary folks to do it. As I recall, the founder of Christianity did the same thing.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels

“It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels

“Beware of people who say they’re too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels

“A man’s shoes said something about his character. Jennifer looked for jurors who wore comfortable shoes, because they were inclined to be easy-going.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels