"Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

#Editors Quotes #Brain Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.”
“There's so much fear running our lives that we forget to be human when it really counts.”
“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”
“Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.”
“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”
“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”
“The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another.”

Source : John Constable, Anne Gray, Dr, John Gage, Conal Shields, Ann Galbally (2006). “Constable: Impressions of Land, Sea and Sky”

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