"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wislawa Szymborska

#Temperature Quotes #Failing Quotes

“It seems to me that any popular fictional character's appeal is idiosyncratic in nature. Characters with large followings - Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter, the crew of the Starship Enterprise - seem to embody something very particular even as they speak to something within a huge number of people. When I think of the most time-tested examples, the common thread appears to be an author who feels deeply for what he is creating.”
“I told him I wasn't tired. He told me, no, but the outfielders sure are.”
“Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
“Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.”
“I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in CÃ©zanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.”
“No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.”

Source : "Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.
“The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.”

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