#Life Quotes #Real Quotes #Dust Quotes
“People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.”
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
“Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.”
“There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.”
“The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”
“Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”
“Sexual reproduction exists solely as a means to defeat parasites. By mixing male and female genes, sex produces offspring not exactly like either the male or female—making each generation different from the last, and presenting a moving target to intruders intent on compromising this system. … Even with this variation, parasites continue to pose a threat... and parasitism evolves and moves through any system—not just living things. The less variation there is in a system, the more readily parasites will evolve to infest it...”
Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.425, Penguin
“When one person is having a low energy day, the other can step it up. There's a collective amount of energy, and we're each on different levels each day.”
Amy Lowell Poet
Edgar Allan Poe Author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet
James Thomas Fields Publisher
John Greenleaf Whittier Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
Washington Irving Author
William C. Bryant Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician
