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> [An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/an-artist-attunes-to-what-things-are-which-means-sort-of-listening-to/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

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## More by Timothy Morton

> [Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/psychologism-holds-that-logical-assertions-are-percolations-of-brains/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> ['Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/free-speech-isn-t-speech-at-all-if-it-s-being-used-without-listening/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [It's easier to be Eric Idle than to be Paul McCartney.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/it-s-easier-to-be-eric-idle-than-to-be-paul-mccartney/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/a-weird-thing-is-a-strange-loop-what-some-of-us-call-an-object-thus/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [After a lifetime of listening to every Floyd album pretty much all the time - they're etched - 'Animals' is the one I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/after-a-lifetime-of-listening-to-every-floyd-album-pretty-much-all/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“Wholes subscend their parts, which means that parts are not just mechanical components of wholes, and that there can be genuine surprise and novelty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/wholes-subscend-their-parts-which-means-that-parts-are-not-just/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/unfortunately-of-course-guilt-is-an-artifact-of-agricultural-age/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Always say less than you think you need. Inject some space into the conversation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/always-say-less-than-you-think-you-need-inject-some-space-into-the/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/in-the-end-a-lifeform-is-always-a-hybrid-a-being-endowed-with-some-x/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“I call this double truth of a thing its fragility, the inner fragility of a thing is why a thing can exist at all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-call-this-double-truth-of-a-thing-its-fragility-the-inner-fragility/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [“Solidarity requires having something in common. But having something in common is exactly what culturalism sees as essentialism, and thus as reactionary primitivism. How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/solidarity-requires-having-something-in-common-but-having-something/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [Spending some money on the you who is going to get a job is essential.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/spending-some-money-on-the-you-who-is-going-to-get-a-job-is-essential/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I try to have little or no alcohol when I go to a big conference. Sorry to be a party pooper, but that stuff…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-try-to-have-little-or-no-alcohol-when-i-go-to-a-big-conference/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-grew-up-in-a-haunting-postindustrial-landscape-where-prehistoric/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

> [I'm the absolute worst at getting jobs, ever. I had 100 rejections before I landed one. I kept all the letters in a folder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-morton/i-m-the-absolute-worst-at-getting-jobs-ever-i-had-100-rejections/)

[Timothy Morton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-morton/)

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