"It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two."

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David Salle

#Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes #Differences Quotes

“I tend to play sort of douchey.”
“POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.”
“I'm just one gigantic ball of rancid fear and self-consciousness. I'm entirely fueled by fear, so the fact that I knew it could be a catastrophic disaster made me unable to sleep, and made me work quite hard.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Lawrence, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.
“Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.”

Source : David Abrahamsen (1973). “The murdering mind”, Harpercollins
“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”
“Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.”
“That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.218, Vintage
“Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.”

Source : Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.250, Weiser Books

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