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Edmond Jabes has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it…
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Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
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The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
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In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its…
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
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One rose is enough for the dawn
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of…
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How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of…
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In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.
— John Cale
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me,…
— Edmond Jabes
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but…
— Edmund Burke
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Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
— Marilyn Manson
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No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that…
— Michael Scheuer
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By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need…
— Tom Hanks
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Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old…
— Florence King
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If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else…
— Brian Eno
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