"The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering."

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Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Brenda Ueland

#Happiness Quotes #Long Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.”
“When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also put the characters in a cell, and it's three stories underground, rather than on the surface. The characters have one Istanbul, the other one is above ground. One is in dark, one is in light. That kind of contradiction - those opposite sides - creates a great energy in Istanbul.”
“We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.”
“We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press
“Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.”
“I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.”
“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”

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