"The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience ."

-- Matthew Arnold

#Ideas Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Spontaneity Quotes

“I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.”
“As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.”
“Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!”
“There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.”
“We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.”
“Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.”
“Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.”
“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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