Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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I don’t control my writing – it controls me.
Ray Bradbury
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I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?
Alice Walker
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I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘But how can it be like that?’ because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
Richard P. Feynman
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I’m going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
Kanye West
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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
John D. Rockefeller
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Horace
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