"We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human."

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Source : David Abram (1996). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World”, Pantheon

David Abram

#Contact Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for the best. Over seven years, I was rejected seven times on three different books. The fourth attempt was picked up by a small publisher, and I still have great memories of staying up all night, talking to my brother and sisters (my dad called me at 2:30 in the morning because I was overseas).”
“Rent' was my first professional job, ever.”
“Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.”
“I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.”
“Lines don't make beautiful women less beautiful”

Source : Isabel Wolff (2010). “A Vintage Affair: A Novel”, p.31, Bantam
“You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.”
“As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.”
“Take encouragement from how far you've come, not how far you have left to go.”

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