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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them and understanding them. Like the forces of nature, they can be subjected to man's deliberate act of will and be made to work in harmony with reason.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020