"There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head"

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Source : Damon Knight (1961). “Far Out: 13 Science Fiction Stories”

Damon Knight

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“Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.”
“I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.”
“In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.”
“It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.”
“I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.”
“The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
“One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discussed around the table. We talk about the play, and the actors listen, and there have been cases, you disagree on something... I mean, actors don't usually tell you what they're going to do, they do it. Of course, you try to speak with the director and say, "Is there any way you can bring this actor to do something different?" You try as much as you can, but then, you also have to be open to interpretation.”
“We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.67, A&C Black

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