"Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence."

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Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

Robert Smithson

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“True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.”

Source : Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
“If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516”
“Since seeing Max Kirsten for insomnia - I'm finally achieving a good night's sleep, its just wonderful. He's my new secret weapon!”
“Science can only be comprehended epistemologically , which means as one category of possible knowledge , as long as knowledge is not equated either effusively with the absolute knowledge of a great philosophy or blindly with scientistic self-understanding of the actual business of research.”

Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
“I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys Don't Cry, I felt this yearning to go out and be even half as good as she was.”
“I think of my novels as entertainments.”
“The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves.”
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”

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