"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

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Arthur Koestler

#Mistake Quotes #Goal Quotes #Flow Quotes

“Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, canâ€™t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates â€” or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?”
“The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.”
“A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.”
“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.”
“What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing with that strait jacket?-Suze Simon's imagination”
“Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.”
“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.”
“A woman who writes feels too much.”

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