Rupture Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.…
— Eugene Ionesco
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The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience…
— Bridget Riley
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Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture…
— Ray Kurzweil
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I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a…
— William Shirley
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Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
— Shoshana Zuboff
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Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe…
— Lauren Slater
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those…
— Spider Robinson
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Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping…
— George Kubler
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How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.
— William Kentridge
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I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and…
— Ayad Akhtar
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When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will…
— Michel Martelly
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A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things…
— Clement Greenberg
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was…
— Camille Paglia
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But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with…
— Georges Bataille
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Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the…
— Julio Cortazar
Who Wrote These Rupture Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 37 Rupture Quotes, led by these top contributors: