"How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible..."

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Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

William Gaddis

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.”

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“A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.”
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agencyâ€™s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate todayâ€™s historic feat.”
“Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives in poverty. Do not say, "I am the son of a rich man. It is shameful for me to be in poverty." Christ, your Heavenly Father, Who gave birth to you in the baptistery, is not in worldly riches. Rather he walked in poverty and had nowhere to lay His head.”
“I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.”

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“There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.”
“Ideas are nothing, doing is everything”

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