"A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself."

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Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.

Bernard Beckett

#Knowledge Quotes

“There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.”
“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books
“If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.”
“The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.”
“Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things where it's a pure idea, and you just follow it and put it down and see if it works.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.”

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