"Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

David Toop

#Book Quotes #Sound Quotes #Bob Quotes

“Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.”
“I was proud of working 18 hours a day and sleeping three hours a night. It's something now that has turned into a problem for me: not being able to sleep... having insomnia.”
“Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
“Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.”

Source : Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon “A Short Method Of Prayer”, Library of Alexandria
“Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.”
“One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.”
“Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.”

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