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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself…
— Willa Cather
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the…
— Sam Abell
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the…
— Alexander Whyte
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms…
— Djuna Barnes
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Be quick without hurrying.
— John Wooden
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties.…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
— E. M. Forster
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better…
— Mary Steenburgen
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more,…
— Tryon Edwards
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you do not…
— John Keats
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