Alex Scarrow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After all, what more does a true genius want? The mind itself is the palace where all the real treasures, the works of art, the indulgences exist.
-- Alex Scarrow

#Art #Real #Mind
We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
-- Alex Scarrow

#Moments #Born #Faster
I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!" "Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
-- Alex Scarrow

#Fighting #Coward #Said
In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care...
-- Alex Scarrow

#Stars #War #Light
It is in our nature to destroy what we create. (Dr. Paul Kramer)
-- Alex Scarrow

#Drs #Kramer
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge. We're like children casually playing with an atom bomb.
-- Alex Scarrow

#Children #Powerful #Atoms

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
The mind is like a river. The thoughts are like the various droplets of water. We are submerged in that water. Stay on the bank and watch your mind.
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

Alex Scarrow famous quotes

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