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David Moore
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There are certain times in life when superficial pop songs can touch on deeper personal truths within. Like when you fall in love, and suddenly, the most banal love song lyrics suddenly make sense. Or when you are sad, or depressed and the
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“In childhood we inhabit a world of wonderful contrasts that later we often come to see as bizarre and do our best to rearrange, with everything in its 'proper' place. Unusual juxtapositions we label surrealistic. Yet what is surrealism but a second childhood with Freudian overtones which we have to be re-educated to enjoy? -- part of the tragedy of growing up”
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“I don’t know Mr. Wilson to any degree—I am one of those who knew him best for creating the source material for Life Force, which was a terrible movie—but my wish for him was that he lived the sort of life where he didn’t actually care what his obits said, and instead enjoyed his life and left work that had the possibility of speaking for itself, over time. If you’re a creative (or indeed any other) person, let me suggest you don’t worry about your obits either. As well as you can, live the life you want to live and make the work you want to make. After you’re gone, it’ll all be sorted out or not. You won’t be around to worry about it. Focus on the parts you’re around for.”
― Don't Live for Your Obituary: Advice, Commentary and Personal Observations on Writing, 2008-2017
― Don't Live for Your Obituary: Advice, Commentary and Personal Observations on Writing, 2008-2017
“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
—Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995”
― Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”
― Drawn and Quartered
― Drawn and Quartered
“Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all, we know perfectly well that the past is as real as the present, and that New York and Singapore and Lhasa and Stepney Green are all as real as the place I happen to be in at the moment. Yet my senses do not agree. They assure me that this place, here and now, is far more real than any other place or any other time. Only in certain moments of great inner intensity do I know this to be a lie. Faculty X is a sense of reality, the reality of other places and other times, and it is the possession of it — fragmentary and uncertain though it is — that distinguishes man from all other animals”
― The Occult
― The Occult
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