"You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong."

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Source : Peter Greenaway, Sei Shōnagon (1996). “The pillow book”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

Peter Greenaway

#Mistake Quotes #Mean Quotes #Black Quotes

“So thereâ€™s a kind of resurgence of the sense of freedom and spontaneity in nature. From nature being bound into a rigid, deterministic model, freedom, spontaneity and openness are emerging once again. Itâ€™s now recognized the future is open, not determined by the past. And this is true in many realms, the astronomical realm, the human realm, the meteorological realm in many ways.”
“I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.”
“If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.”
“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”
“Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.”
“The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!”
“Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.”

Source : Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2008.
“In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.”

Source : Song: Everywhere We Go, Album: Rise and Shine

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