"Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can."

-- M. John Harrison

#Perspective Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Glimpse Quotes

“We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity-where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.”
“There's no religion but sex and music.”
“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”
“No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite”

Source : "Über das Unendliche" ["On the Infinite"] (1925) address to der Westfälischen Mathematischen Gesellschaft in honour to the memory of Karl Weierstrass, as quoted in "Number The Language of Science" by Tobias Dantzig, 1930.
“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”
“The corporation is an out-of-control Frankenstein.”
“You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.”
“When I think about political races, and certain consultants, the word that comes to mind is dirty. Dirty, dirty, DIRTY!”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

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