"To summarize the idea that our emotions, our reactions to events, and some mental illnesses are caused by the mental filters through which we look at the world, I could not say it any more concisely than Shakespeare: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."' I began to use such quotations to help my students remember the big ideas in psychology, and I began to wonder just how many such ideas there were." Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis
"I came to the fields and spacious palaces of memory." St. Augustine of Hippo
"I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life." Charles Baudelaire
"Our life is the creation of our mind." Buddha
"Technology made possible an ever increasing spread of that mentality which looks at the world as a set of potential photographs." Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Minimalism can be very good for the life of
fiction: description, thrown back onto its essentials, flourishes as it
justifies its own existence. Words are returned to their original
function as names." James Woods, The Fun Stuff
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| Wittgenstein's duck/rabbit |
"I don’t have anyone in mind. No one in particular. Most of my friends are poets. Poetry is the best thing in the world. Poets who write poetry, and then keep writing it, are very brave. Not as brave as soldiers, or policemen, or firemen, or people who work with the disabled, or in nursing homes, or with Alzheimer’s patients, not as brave as Alzheimer’s patients, or people who do the same crappy job every day for forty years so their kids can have a better life, or people who lose a limb, or people who are paralyzed and choose to go on with a positive attitude, or motorcyclists, or gang members, or boxers, or women in prison, or electricians, but brave—poets are brave, nonetheless." Jeffrey Skinner The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful poets: A Self-Help Memoir
“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”Lyn Hejinian, My Life
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| Sally, Thanksgiving, Sunset |
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