"Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer."

-- Thomas McGuire

#Thinking Quotes #Combat Quotes

“I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes me pain and distress. So I can't really pay too much attention. When that encyclical from the Pope - the one about contraception - began 'Dear Sons and Brothers' I figured it must be private mail and had nothing to do with me. So I didn't read it.”
“We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.”

Source : "String theorist Edward Witten gives prize lecture" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2010.
“To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.”
“It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.”
“How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.169
“I love languages (I speak French and Spanish and have been studying Russian) and accents; so one definite dream role would be being able to combine those elements into a character.”
“The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.”
“All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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