"To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking."

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Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Space of Literature”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

Arnold Bennett

#Writing Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Somé (1994). “Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman”, Tarcher
“If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.”

Source : Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457
“Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.”
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”

Source : Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2008). “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, p.33, Vintage
“And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.”
“God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!”
“Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
“The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.”

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