"The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'"

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David Viscott

#Clay Quotes #Stones Quotes #Lists Quotes

“If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me.”
“We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.”
“I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a floodâ€¦.I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truthâ€”messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthyâ€”and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.”
“Communication is an offering. When you tell someone your truth, you must release your expectation of what the other person should do with it. They may thank you profusely, love you forever, argue with you, or ignore you. It doesn't matter. Of course we hope the gift will be received with appreciation and thanks. But if it isn't we must not dictate. We've done our part, and we must trust the universe to do the rest.”
“You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.”
“I like California a lot more than New York these days.”
“Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying â€“ what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.”
“You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?”

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