"People don't have to put you in a box. You can have the confidence to move across, and combine and learn from each different practice. They inform each other."

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Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

David Toop

#Moving Quotes #Practice Quotes #People Quotes

“we've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...”
“I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.”
“We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.”
“Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.”

Source : Alex Garland (2004). “The Coma”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.”
“Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”
“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

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