"All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."

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Ray Bradbury

#Silence Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Emptiness Quotes

“You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.”
“The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on the panels than the 'presence' of the panels themselves. In Red Yellow Blue III the square panels present color. It was made to exist forever in the present; it is an idea and can be repeated anytime in the future.”
“America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?”
“I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.
“And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.”

Source : Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2
“What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.”
“There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.”

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