"A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed."

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Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press

Witold Gombrowicz

#Style Quotes #Embrace Quotes

“I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.”
“Oh, I'm sure we could talk them into letting us in for nothing," Marco said. "Just tell them we're Animorphs." "Tell them we're what?" Rachel asked. "Idiot teenagers with a death wish," Marco said. "Animorphs." I tried the word out. It sounded okay.”
“I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.”
“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.”
“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.”
“I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.”
“The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.”
“A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.”

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