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“Separate the processes of creating
from improving. You can’t write and edit
or sculpt and polish
or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be
unleashed from judgment.”
― Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
from improving. You can’t write and edit
or sculpt and polish
or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be
unleashed from judgment.”
― Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“—¡Eh! —dijo el Cecrope—, que aquí todo se sabe.
—No digas se sabe —replicó el Sabio—, sino que todo se habla.”
― El Criticón
—No digas se sabe —replicó el Sabio—, sino que todo se habla.”
― El Criticón
“La realización, reflexionó Shevek, es una función del tiempo. La búsqueda de placer es circular, repetitiva, atemporal. La variedad que persigue el espectador, el cazador de emociones, el sexualmente promiscuo, siempre concluye en el mismo lugar. Tiene un final. Llega al final y tiene que volver a empezar. No es un viaje y un retorno, sino un ciclo cerrado, un claustro, una celda.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force. I speak, therefore I am.”
― The Great Silence
― The Great Silence
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