"Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe."

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Source : Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.288

Robert Pollok

#Dark Quotes #Woe Quotes #And Love Quotes

“Thereâ€™s a writer for you,â€ he said. â€œKnows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.â€ [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersâ€”because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answerâ€”still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers arenâ€™t people exactly. Or, if theyâ€™re any good, theyâ€™re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. Itâ€™s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward tryingâ€”only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
“Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.”
“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”
“I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.”
“After school, I went to Damascus to study law and history, which I didn't really like. I didn't like history, in particular. In Syria, the regime was trying to present to us a distorted version of the past. Assad was shown as the father of history. So I decided to shift to film, which was something I had always loved as a teenager.”
“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
“The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didnâ€™t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for meâ€¦ the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madnessâ€”I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didnâ€™t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.”
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper”

Source : E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.90, Vintage

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