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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Forms of cultural expression have their own dynamic, whose evolution can never be fully foreseen.”
— Camille Paglia, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Tagged: Idea Expression, Thought as Evolution
“Timber was the oil of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and any shortages created similar anxieties about fuel, manufacturing and transport, as threats to oil production do today.”
— Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Tagged: Lumber, Timber, Energy
“What appears unreachable exerts a mysterious pull’.”
— Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Tagged: Mystery, Great Heights, Quote of the Moment
“Going forward, we will measure Facebook's progress with groups based on meaningful groups, not groups overall. This will require not only helping people connect with existing meaningful groups, but also enabling community leaders to create more meaningful groups for people to connect with.”
— Mark Zuckerberg, Building Global Community
Tagged: Facebook, Community on Facebook
“When the angels leave, the demons come in.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Angels, What Fills You?
“Kneel not to me: the power that I have on you is to spare you; the malice towards you to forgive you. Live! And deal with others better.”
— Cymbeline, Cymbeline
Tagged: Creative Mercy, Empathy
“A poet does not write to set down things he clearly knows, but to open the lips of his own oracle.”
— John Vyvyan, The Shakespearean Ethic(Vyvyan's Shakespearean Trilogy)
Tagged: Poets, Poetry, Writing, Writing as Discovery, Quote of the Moment
“It's a shame, all the ways we build ourselves up just to let each other down.”
— Fake Problems, Songs For Teenagers
Tagged: Let Down, Humans Are Fallible
“Just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky— so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”
— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
Tagged: The Space Between, The Bardo, The Gulf Between Thought and Action, My Philosophy
“Fate is cruel but maybe not random.”
— Theodore Decker, The Goldfinch
Tagged: Fate, Destiny, Master Plans