"Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves â€” are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire."

-- Austin Osman Spare

#Light Quotes #Doors Quotes #Media Quotes

“These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.”

Source : Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.132
“If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.”

Source : "Peirce's Theory of Inquiry and Beyond" by Thora Margareta Bertilsson, (p. 41), 2009.
“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”
“When you strive for perfection, you compare different versions of what could be instead of being present with what is. Perfectionism is an attempt to inhabit an imaginary world in order to avoid experiencing the world in which you live.”
“Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.”
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.”
“I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing”

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