"If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about."

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Source : Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Stone

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“It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”
“Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.”
“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.”
“I dont know how it is now but the assistant stage manager had to understudy several parts. You had to be ready to go on at any time if the actor couldnt make it to the play. I didnt think anything of it.”
“And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'”
“Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.”
“Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.”

Source : Karsten Harries (2010). “Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or”, p.87, Walter de Gruyter

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