"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Moving Quotes #Shapes Quotes #May Quotes

“Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.”
“For me, it's Jesus plus nothing-...”
“I think photography is so hard. To be working in video and photography the past 20 years - because I was doing it in high school - you're dealing with mediums that change culture. The way they are distributed, disseminated - it's changed so dramatically. One of the things I always like to do is look at the structure of something and detach myself from the structure and figure out how to slightly alter it. So if the structure itself is constantly liquidated, it just really is difficult for me to really even know what to think of Instagram.”
“...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.”
“Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.”
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2007). “The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight”, p.387, Macmillan
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”

Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
“The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

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