"I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song ."

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Source : "Not The Average Philosopher". Harvard Magazine, Volume 99, Number 5, May/June 1997.

Charles Hartshorne

#Song Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.”
“Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.”
“I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.”
“I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.”
“The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.”
“The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.”
“Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.”
“I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.”

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