"As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself."

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Source : Brion Gysin (2015). “Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader”, p.188, Wesleyan University Press

Brion Gysin

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.”
“True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.”
“as imperfect human beings, any of us, all of us, are subject at some time or another to make mistakes!”
“I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.”

Source : Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media
“Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.”
“If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”
“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.”

Source : "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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