"We say that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed... Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed."

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Source : Article in 'Le Figaro' on February 20, 1909. "Futurist Manifestos". Book edited by Umbro Appolonio, www.unknown.nu. 1973.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.291, Pan Macmillan
“God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be.”
“Iâ€™m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me â€“ my neck, say, or my knee â€“ and Iâ€™d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldnâ€™t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. Weâ€™d come so close, do you see, that I wouldnâ€™t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.”
“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Source : Louis Bromfield (1957). “The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .”
“I still have my "Anarchy in the UK" 7" [ Sex Pistols single]. I'm sure it gave us a context to think about as well as a kind of kick in the ass. But we had all been playing for years at that point.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Sometimes--and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second--sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.”
“If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.”

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