"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past."

-- Klaus Schulze

#Past Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.”
“For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most up-to-date in the world. Nothing now remained but heaps of rubble and a stench of decaying human flesh.”
“Thatâ€™s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were, many and most of them, locked on the other side a closed door that heâ€™s lost the key for. So his memory became like secrets held away from his own mind. But these secrets were noisy things; they babbled and muttered behind the door, and so if he listened closely he might catch a snatch of something he once knew well.”
“My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.”
“Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.”

Source : "Emphyrio" by Jack Vance, (Chapter 5), 1969.
“If you want someoneâ€™s attention, whisper.”
“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.”

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