"Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the person who makes it at the time he makes it. He clears as he goes, evolves his own techniques, devises his own tools, ignores where he must. And his path cannot be retraced, because each of us is an original being."

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Source : Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.11, Da Capo Press

Harry Partch

#Goal Quotes #Steps Quotes #Technique Quotes

“The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.”

Source : Hans Reichenbach, Maria Reichenbach (1991). “The Direction of Time”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.”

Source : "Katy B on her new album, raving and sticking to her pirate radio roots" by Sam Wolfson, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2013.
“Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)
“Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.”
“The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.18, M.E. Sharpe
“Oh, what would you like on your vegetarian pizza?" "Dead pigs and cows," I said. She glanced up at me and wrinkled her nose. "They're vegetarians," I said defensively.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.2012, Penguin
“There have been so many moments in our young life and our young career, but looking back it would have been great to share some of those with my family members, or have not worked so hard, I would always just be working during some of the fun times.”
“The Earth forgives the previous year every year.”

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