"To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge."

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Opposites Quotes #Acting Quotes #Realization Quotes

“Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.”
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.”
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”
“Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.”
“As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”, New York
“I'm game for anything fun.”
“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”
“Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.”

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