"Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?"

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Source : Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

Marjorie Bowen

#Doe Quotes #Ghost Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but itâ€™s also an absolute miracle, that youâ€™re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water thatâ€™s run by a weak electrical signal, and youâ€™re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listenerâ€™s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. Thatâ€™s miraculous, and thatâ€™s where I live.”
“I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?”

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“. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
“The more I see and hear, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”
“The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.”
“There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.”
“I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!”

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