"Treasure your exceptions."

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Source : William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive

William Bateson

#Treasure Quotes #Exception Quotes

“Movies aren't "slow burn," and aren't serious, aren't interesting, because everything from the movie to the promotional materials is telling you that you have to see it between Friday and Sunday, and then you can forget about it. It's not an important movie, it's just a lowest-common-denominator thrill-ride for three days when you've got nothing to do. That does a major disservice to the quality of the films”
“I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.”
“I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .”
“Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.”
“Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.”
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press
“Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.”
“A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.”

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