"There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow."

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Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.424, LSU Press

Keri Hulme

#Light Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.”

Source : L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.174, Bridge Publications, Inc.
“There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.”

Source : Mary Butts (2008). “The Journals of Mary Butts”, p.30, Yale University Press
“Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul touching is what bein an m.c. is all about. I wanted my intelligence to be heard in my lyrics..I wanted the pain to be felt...and the happiness i encountered. Bein an m.c. takes originality, style, imagination, delivery, intelligence and presence.”
“When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.”
“We do as we feel not as we think”
“The theater is a school we shall never have done with studying and learning.”
“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
“Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.”

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