"I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down."

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Source : Gustav Meyrink, Mike Mitchell (Translator) (2013). “The Golem”, p.223, SCB Distributors

Gustav Meyrink

#Goal Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Tears Quotes

“Music is my juice. I like building gear and making records.”
“I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.”
“[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.”
“I often think of that rare fulfilling joy, when I am in the presence of some wonderful alignment of events. Where the light, the colour, the shapes and the balance all interlock so beautifully that I feel truly overwhelmed by the wonder of it.”
“I feel that Wilton Felder and Wayne Henderson have involved themselves so deeply into being Jehovah's Witnesses that Stix Hooper and I have decided we simply cannot tiptoe around them. Now at 53 years old, I am looking forward to the rest of my life.”

Source : Interview with Pete Fogel, steelydanreader.com. October 1992.
“It's not bragging if you can back it up.”
“I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!”
“The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.”

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