"I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other."

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Source : Li-Young Lee, Earl G. Ingersoll (2006). “Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee”, p.49, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Li-Young Lee

#Long Quotes #Luck Quotes #Mind Quotes

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
“The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.”
“I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.”
“Your brain never stops developing and changing. It's been doing it from the time your were an embryo, and will keep on doing it all your life. And this ability, perhaps, represents it greatest strength.”

Source : James Trefil (1998). “Are We Unique: A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind”, Wiley
“I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours pass. Reflectors and lights are added, footprints are smoothed away, so that there are no telltale clues as the day wears on. When the shot is finished and the plugs are pulled, time seems to leap forward in a matter of seconds. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.”
“Frankly, [the definition of woman] is a problem that the lesbians do not have because of a change of perspective. 'Woman' has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual, economic systems. Lesbians are not women.”
“Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.”
“A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.”

Source : Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

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