"There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform."

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Source : "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

Rachel Cusk

#Book Quotes #Artist Quotes #Justice Quotes

“It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.”
“The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.”

Source : Source: xstuckinthepastx.blogspot.com
“Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.”
“The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.”
“The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!”

Source : Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Volume 35, (p. 251), 1951.
“People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.”

Source : Veronica Rossi (2013). “Brooke”, p.5, Harper Collins
“Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.”

Source : "The Last Messiah". Book by Peter Wessel Zapffe, 1933.
“The chances of human beings being the only intelligent form of life in the universe are so minuscule that it's really kind of crazy to actually - no scientist could ever argue that we would be alone. It's much more likely that there are hundreds of thousands of other intelligences and other life forms out there in the universe just based on a strictly mathematical formula. And what that means is that artificial intelligence has probably already occurred in the universe.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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