"We attach meaning to things, and things to meaning: endow them one way or another as if to prove to ourselves that we are who we are; this life really happened; we really have traveled this far in time and space."

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Source : "The Object Parade: Essays". Book by Dinah Lenney, 2014.

Dinah Lenney

#Space Quotes #Who We Are Quotes #Way Quotes

“Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.”
“At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”
“I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form.Â His class has been helpful to thousands of people.Â I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness.Â Joyfulness is our birthright.Â This book shows you how to reclaim it.”
“The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.”
“For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.”
“I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."”
“Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.”

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