"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external……" — Gene Wolfe
"Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities."
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Gene Wolfe
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48 Quotes by Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe has 48 quotes on this site.
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all.…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet.…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.
— Henri Bergson
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what…
— Henri Bergson
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature…
— Larry Bird
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It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express…
— Constantin Brancusi
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Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
— William Throsby Bridges
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way…
— Orson Scott Card
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain,…
— Kurt Cobain
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