"Your work is ingenious. It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect."

-- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

#Cutting Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Silence Quotes

“A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.”

Source : Michelle Richmond (2009). “No One You Know”, p.306, Random House
“My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.”
“I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.”
“I play a detective, very close to myself actually.”
“The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.”
“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calk, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and be riven. ... I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event.”
“The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.”
“It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.”

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