"I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses."

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Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.53, Everyman's Library

Julio Cortazar

#Night Quotes #Mind Quotes #Compass Quotes

“McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.”
“Why fear? The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving, but never lost; so what need of denominations and creeds to deny myself the comfort of all my fellow men? The wide belt of the universe has no need for finger-rings. I am one with the infinite and need no other assurance.”
“The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.”
“Iâ€™m so sorry weâ€™ll never meet,â€ she whispered, laying her posy atop the late Lord and Lady Payneâ€™s grave. â€œBut thank you. For him. I promise, Iâ€™ll love him as fiercely as I can. Kindly send down some blessings when you can spare them. Weâ€™ll probably need them, from time to time.”
“The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.”
“If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.”
“If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the health of Society, it is also vital for our personal well-being. Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. It does more harm to those that hold it than to those whom it is held against.”
“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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