We Invent Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for…
— Elizabeth Streb
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
— Eddie Izzard
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The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and…
— Unknown Author
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It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star:…
— Clarence Day
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We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be…
— Neil Postman
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We invent the past and remember the future.
— Isak Dinesen
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always…
— Bill Watterson
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Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which…
— Gene Wolfe
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In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.
— Alberto Manguel
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Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
— Christopher Paolini
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Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
— Siri Hustvedt
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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
— Gene Wolfe
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We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically.…
— S.J. Watson
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It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves;…
— Julian Barnes
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Its time we woke up,†pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone’s older brother…
— John Irving
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Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
— Richard Siken
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What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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