"Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!"

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Source : Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.119, Penguin

Nnedi Okorafor

#Imperfect Quotes #Flawed Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“Be persistent. Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.”
“But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be abundantly clear by now, nothing inside a frame can state, or even ask, anything about that frame. The solution, then, is not the finding of an answer to the riddle of existence, but the realization that there is no riddle. This is the essence of the beautiful, almost Zen Buddhist closing sentences of the Tracticus: "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist."”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
“A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
“That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin
“The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising”
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
“I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.”
“When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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