"There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water."

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Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

Janet Frame

#Time Quotes #Past Quotes #Water Quotes

“An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.”
“The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.”
“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”
“Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.”

Source : "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.
“This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.”
“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”

Source : Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 16, 2014.
“If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.”
“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”

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