"New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?"

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Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK

William Least Heat-Moon

#Vision Quotes #Way Quotes #Turns Quotes

“It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.”
“We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.”
“Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.”
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”
“People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.”
“There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.”
“When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.”

Source : Harold C. Schonberg (1985). “The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini to Pavarotti”, Vintage
“You save your soul by saving someone else's body.”

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