Don Gibson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Simple is the only way I can write.
-- Don Gibson

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The only thing I was any good at was music.
-- Don Gibson
They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.
-- Don Gibson

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I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.
-- Don Gibson

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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

Don Gibson famous quotes

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