"Perception of a state is not the state."

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Source : M. John Harrison (2012). “Nova Swing”, p.136, Hachette UK

M. John Harrison

#Perception Quotes #States Quotes

“Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.”
“Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.”
“I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.”
“I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.”
“Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others.”
“I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs.”
“Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.”
“One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.”

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