"The actor is an athlete of the heart."

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Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.260, Univ of California Press

Antonin Artaud

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“Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.”
“Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.”
“A multidisciplinary study group ... estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.”

Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”
“If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.”
“We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.”
“Learning is the art of ignoring.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day
“Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.”
“Our role as parents is to do all we can to create an atmosphere where our children can feel the influence of the Spirit and then help them recognize what they are feeling.”

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