"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Writing Quotes #Library Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.”
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.”
“Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere.”
“I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.”
“Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.”
“Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.”

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.”
“Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.”

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