- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
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- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- Try
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
- Gas Prices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
- Fragility
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020