"Art must not serve might."

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Source : Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.

Karel Capek

#Art Quotes #Might Quotes

“Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.”

Source : Interview with Laura Yorke, Reader's Digest, July 2006.
“Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.”

Source : "Will Robots Inherit the Earth?". Scientific American, web.media.mit.edu. October 1994.
“When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.”
“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”
“Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.”
“I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?”
“Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path.”
“There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara”

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