"The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind."

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Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.192, Counterpoint Press

Bill Porter

#Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.”
“I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.”
“I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.”
“I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.”
“It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.”
“I had a rope around my waist, and the rope was attached into the helicopter in case I fell off. And the shot was a shot that began with Kim Novak going out of a house and getting into a bus. Then it was supposed to go over the countryside and find a freight train on which Bill Holden was standing. And then after seeing a good look at the freight train, the camera was supposed to move up into the sky for the end credits.”
“A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2010.
“I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the height of the theory craziness. It had a big part in why I ended up becoming a writer rather than a scholar, because I thought, "I just can't play these games." I was interested in literature because I loved literature, and so much of the theoretical positioning, at that moment 25 years ago, was antagonistic to literature. You know, trying to show that Jane Austen is a terrible person because she wasn't thinking about colonialism.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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