“To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time.
But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.
Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind.
The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience.
Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“How can i hope to succeed when surrounded by flaccid imaginations and puny minds when my head.. My head is filled with NIETZCHE?”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace".”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Anything that's not functional is merely decorative.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“To live as I understand it is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Every memory no matter how remote its subject takes place "now " at the moment it's called up in the mind. The more something is recalled the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience because every memory is a re-creation not a playback.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“...by choosing two aspects of a subject that appear to be in opposition, each can be examined in light of the other in order to better illuminate the entire subject, as long as one doesn't mistake the system for reality.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions. ”
― David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
“Svako sjećanje , koliko god mu sadržaj dalek, događa se ''sada'', u trenutku kad ga um prizove. Što se češće prisjećamo, to um ima više prilike prepravljati izvorno iskustvo, jer svako je prisjećanje ponovno stvaranje, a ne reprodukcija.”
― David Mazzucchelli, quote from Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli
Born place: in The United States
Born date September 21, 1960
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“Plato in his Protagoras well saith, a good philosopher as much excels other men, as a great king doth the commons of his country; and again, [2062] quoniam illis nihil deest, et minimè egere solent, et disciplinas quas profitentur, soli à contemptu vindicare possunt, they needed not to beg so basely, as they compel [2063] scholars in our times to complain of poverty, or crouch to a rich chuff for a meal's meat, but could vindicate themselves, and those arts which they professed. Now they would and cannot: for it is held by some of them, as an axiom, that to keep them poor, will make them study; they must be dieted, as horses to a race, not pampered, [2064] Alendos volunt, non saginandos, ne melioris mentis flammula extinguatur; a fat bird will not sing, a fat dog cannot hunt, and so by this depression of theirs [2065] some want means, others will, all want [2066] encouragement, as being forsaken almost; and generally contemned.”
― Robert Burton, quote from The Anatomy of Melancholy
“When you are older you will meet a man who will love you for yourself. A good-natured, charming respectable man who is liked by you family.”
― Amanda Grange, quote from Mr. Darcy's Diary
“Why does no one ever admit that hatred and love can exist side by side, each emotion genuine but only one ever acknowledged as real?”
― Susan Howatch, quote from The Wheel of Fortune
“Blue Duck could never avoid a moment of fear, when his father's eyes became the eyes of a snake. He choked off his insult -- he knew that if he spoke, he might, in an instant, find himself fighting Buffalo Hump. He had seen it before, with other warriors. Someone would say one word too many, would fail to see the snake in his father's eyes, and the next moment Buffalo Hump would be pulling his long bloody knife from between the other warrior's ribs.
Blue Duck waited. He knew that it was not a day to fight his father.”
― Larry McMurtry, quote from Comanche Moon
“Firearms are also good for you. Ask Charlton Heston, who once played Moses. Gunpowder has zero fat and zero cholesterol.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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