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Tagged quotes:
“
Trinculo:
Legg’d like a man! and his fins like arms!
Warm, o’ my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffer’d by a thunder-bolt.
[Thunder.]
Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep
under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery
acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest Act 2, scene 2, 33–41, as quoted in Entangled Bank’s Wet Lab & Library - Inside The Hive at Orphan Black
“The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.”
Dorion Sagan on science and philosophy (via explore-blog)
“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.”
Michael Ondaatje, as quoted in The Hive’s Wet Lab & Library, Ep #105.
“As writers, we traded conspiracy theories and happily debated one another about the parts we all play in bad things, about the nature of complicity, and what’s evil.”
Writers of Orphan Black Blog - The Hive Recap: Natural Selection
“The more real things get, the more like myths they become.”
Rainer W. Fassbinder, via BlinkingTwelve.com
“I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child’s play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?”
The great Mavis Gallant
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.”
William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade
