"Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs."

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Source : "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters " by Yevgeny Zamyatin. As translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin", 1923.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.”
“Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline . . . has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct.”
“I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.”
“I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best”
“There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”
“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
“Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.”
“I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.”

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