Robert Grudin Quotes

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• Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless…
• We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
• The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge…
• Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.
• Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must…
• The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them…
• We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to…
• Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many.…
• All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
• Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the…
• Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
• The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
• No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.
• To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or…
• In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at…

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