"The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature."

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Stanislaw Lem

#Literature Quotes #Demand Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1910). “Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching”
“Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'”
“I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.”
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.”

Source : "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.
“I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.”
“Everybody used to say going to restaurants... is like theater, there's stage sets, there's drama, there's play acting and you watch the show. And now, boy, everything's just become so serious. And you sit at the counter and the chef comes out and tells you what he did to the Brussels sprouts leaves and no, there's not a lot of dancing.”
“I was the head chef on the S.S. Diarrhea.”
“Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.”

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