"No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it"

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Source : "Lettrisme: into the present" by University of Iowa. Museum of Art, Mandeville Art Gallery, (p. 71), 1983.

Isidore Isou

#Want Quotes #Impulse Quotes #Capable Quotes

“Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.”

Source : Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.”
“When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”
“When you're playing cards you can't constantly think about what the money costs you in the real world. You can't be constantly concerned about that if you want to be successful.”
“I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health”
“The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.”
“Right whales, for all their size, are surprisingly athletic. They roll, they slap their flukes, they lift their heads out of the water in a move known as a spy hop. They find playthings and are particularly fond of swimming repeatedly through clumps of seaweed, which slides over them like a feathered boa.”
“We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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