"If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry."

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Edith Sitwell

#Children Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.”
“It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.”
“Films are fantastic - they are one of the peaks of human narrative. But I'm sorry to break the news to the movie industry: So is a video game.”
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.”
“You don't throw away a whole life just because it's banged up a little.”
“I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.”
“I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.”
“Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.”

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