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Raw Material Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
More Raw Material Quotes
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope… — William S. Burroughs
- We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination.… — Deepak Chopra
- The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material… — C.S. Lewis
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted… — Eric Hoffer
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and… — Henry David Thoreau
- Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
- The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward… — Eudora Welty
- Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and… — Ravi Zacharias
- Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson