"... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond."

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Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

Miranda July

#Running Quotes #World Quotes #Hello Quotes

“I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.”
“Photography threatens fantasy.”
“Pathology, probably more than any other branch of science, suffers from heroes and hero-worship. Rudolf Virchow has been its archangel and William Welch its John the Baptist, while Paracelsus and Cohnheim have been relegated to the roles of Lucifer and Beelzebub. ... Actually, there are no heroes in Pathology-all of the great thoughts permitting advance have been borrowed from other fields, and the renaissance of pathology stems not from pathology itself but from the philosophers Kant and Goethe.”
“I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.”
“Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.”
“Not writing at all leads to nothing.”
“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Source : A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley
“Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.”

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