"Time is that which is manufactured by clocks."

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Hermann Bondi

“[King RenÃ© of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.”
“When it's right you can't say Who is kissing whom.”

Source : Gregory Orr (2013). “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved”, p.29, Copper Canyon Press
“We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We possess the Canon because we are mortal and also rather belated. There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before. From the Yahwist and Homer to Freud, Kafka, and Beckett is a journey of nearly three millennia. Since that voyage goes past harbors as infinite as Dante, Chaucer, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy, all of whom amply compensate a lifetime's rereadings, we are in the pragmatic dilemma of excluding something else each time we read or reread extensively.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
“As a human being, I'm work in process.”
“For those of you haven't read the book, it's being published tomorrow”
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...”

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