"In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

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Source : Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

Larry Niven

#Imagination Quotes #World Quotes #Force Quotes

“Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”
“It's my job to beat whoever the UFC puts in front of me. I don't really care who it is. Whoever they put in front of me, I will just try to go out and beat them.”
“Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.”
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
“One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.”
“I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.”
“You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.”
“I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.”

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