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May 28, 2013

Quote – Art About Opening Lines of Communication and Resisting Uncritical Media

‘That’s what art’s all about too… they’re all lines of communication. But they’re harder to keep open now because it’s so much easier for most people to relate to a TV set than it is to another person. They get all this data fed into them, but they don’t know what to do with it anymore. When they talk to...

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May 26, 2013

Quote – Mature People Need to Take a Break From Being Mature Sometimes

“Festivals and holidays were intended to be days when mature people could have a break and stop being mature for a little while. If someone doesn’t need to take some time off, maybe they aren’t really being all that mature during the rest of the year.” -Shen Braun – Costumes (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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May 25, 2013

Quote – Becoming What You Are Studying

“Getting too tangled up in his own quest for understanding. Delving too deeply into the calendering trees that he lost track of where he left his body, until one day he looked around to find that he’d become what he was studying” -Charles de Lint – Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood In The Very Best of Charles de Lint.

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May 23, 2013

Quote – Writers Expose Their Innermost Emotions To The World

“To wear your heart upon your sleeve is to expose your innermost emotions to the world. Writers do that. They expose their most private feelings to total strangers. Not once, not by accident, but deliberately and, to all extents and purposes, permanently.” -Julia Czerneda – Introduction to Douglas Smith’s Chimerascope

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May 17, 2013

Quote – Creations Take On Lives Of Their Own

“When we create, if we do it well, the things we create take on lives of their own and in so doing, cease to be our creations.” -Kevin Cockle– The Bridge Builder (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales

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May 15, 2013

Quote- Humans Programmed For Dangerous Overload

“The pro-survival pleasure stimuli are wired so that a dangerous overload produces the maximum pleasure. On a purely biological level man is programmed to strive hugely for more than he needs, more than he can profitably use.” – Spider Robinson – God is an Iron (Tesseracts)

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May 10, 2013

Quote – Nothing but Defiance Against Reality

“All his actions were nothing more than the petty rebellions of a schoolboy, gestures of defiance to the brutal, relentless authority of reality.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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May 8, 2013

Quote – Without Stories, People Lose Touch with Themselves

“It’s all machines now. It’s a – what do they call it? – high tech world. Fascinating to be sure, but… it estranges many people, cheapens the human experience. There’s no more room for the stories that matter, and that’s wrong, for stories are a part of the language of dream – they grow not from one writer, but from...

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May 3, 2013

Quote – People Who Make Other People Feel Good

“There were people who just made other people feel good. Just being around them, made you feel better, creative, uplifted, happy…. She tried to be, but she was subject to the same bad moods as anybody else, the same impatience with stupidity and ignorance which, parenthetically speaking, were to her mind the prime causes of all the world’s ills.” -Charles...

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April 28, 2013

Quote – Humans Taking Things For Granted

“Taking things for granted is a core component of the human experience.” -Corey Redekop – Husk (ECW press, 2012)

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