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- Nov 07, 2020
Any Given Moment Quotes
On the unpredictability packed into a single moment.
Life can turn on a single moment, and these quotes explore that unpredictability, from live shows where anything can happen to ideas that arrive unannounced mid-sentence. For related reflections, see our Boring quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Raw' is a live show and, as we always say, anything can happen at any given moment at any given time.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the point is, I don't have a right to tell anybody what's right or wrong about their lives. Who am I to tell you at any given moment of the day what would be right for you?
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020