"After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would."

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Source : Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.201, Faber & Faber

Robert Aickman

#Purpose Quotes #Kind Quotes #All Kinds Quotes

“After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.”
“The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.”
“The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.”
“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”

Source : "Woodstock" (song) (1969)
“With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.”
“The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.”
“I`m basically one of the best people I know.”

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