"The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open."

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Source : Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.27, Penguin

Charles Fort

#Fate Quotes #Doors Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.”
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”
“The complexity of the emotional life of the play is what you live to work on.”
“I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.”
“One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.”
“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”

Source : How Buildings Learn ch. 3 (1994)
“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.”

Source : "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.
“I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.”

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