"Perception of a state is not the state." — M. John Harrison

"Perception of a state is not the state."

— M. John Harrison

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14 Quotes by M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you…
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then…
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised…
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap,…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for…
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have…
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go…
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why…

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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