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In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.


George Saunders


#contradiction #ideas #wisdom #writing #art

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.


Benjamin Zander


#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.


Dexter Palmer


#attention-span #future-prediction #storytelling #art

I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monks cared for people with skin diseases—so the suffering Christ in that painting shows symptoms of skin disease. 'It’s because he’s the man of sorrows,' Blinderman argued. 'He takes on the suffering of the world. So if Christ were to appear physically today, one of the sicknesses he would have to take on would be drug addiction.


Cynthia Carr


#drugs #jesus #art

May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch


Keisha Keenleyside


#anger #funny #happy #humor #humour

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.


Garry Trudeau


#contradictions #i #live #most #people

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?


Ashly Lorenzana


#close-mindedness #criticism #drugs #ignorance #judgmental

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.


Debra Kaye


#future-prediction #ideas #innovation #business

For him that stealeth,or borroweth and returneth not,this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain


Cornelia Funke


#library #malediction #change

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.


Aimee Mann


#addiction #because #even #example #funny






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