"Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to paint. What he intended to paint was a representation of the storm. One's language is frequently imprecise in that manner, I have discovered."

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Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr

David Markson

#Storm Quotes #Ships Quotes #Language Quotes

“On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true.”
“As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.”
“I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows”
“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.”
“If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.”
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”

Source : Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.”

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