"It was the straying that found the path direct."

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Source : Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Austin Osman Spare

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“Heâ€™s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. Itâ€™s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, iâ€™d take Thierry Henry”
“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”
“Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.”

Source : Ron Padgett (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.532, Coffee House Press
“I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”

Source : "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.
“As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.”

Source : "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.
“That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.”

Source : "About The Creative Process". "The Yale Review", Volume 94, Issue 3, (pp. 117-118), July 2006.
“One of the joys of this show [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that each of those characters could be starring in their own show. It's only as the show goes on that you realize how they interconnect. They're all moving towards one another inexorably, to meet at a certain point.”

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