"what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about"

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Taste Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.”
“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”
“I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.”
“I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.”
“I bring terror like Stephen King, A black Casanova, runnin ***** over like Christine”
“We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.”
“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”
“Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.”

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