Zoe Whittall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.
-- Zoe Whittall

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Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.
-- Zoe Whittall

#Strong #Watches #Firsts

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!
The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.
My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Zoe Whittall famous quotes

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