H. Givens

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H.’s Quotes

“Does [a book] inform? Not at all. One must go to it, one must make an effort. It gives one the means to inform oneself.”
― Eugène Morel

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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“Puppets do not have thoughts, they are more like our thoughts, images of our thoughts, as if our minds were populated with remnants of the older, more cliched stories that we manipulate and that manipulate us.”
― Kenneth Gross, Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life

tags: ideas, puppets, stories

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“Everybody works according to his ability, some doing more, some doing less, but everyone ought to know whether he is doing good or harm.”
― Sergei Obraztsov, My Profession

tags: art, creativity, ethics, morals

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“No one would ever say, "Come and join us, Caroline," so I would then spend the rest of the lunch period feeling sorry for myself and trying to remember that the lonely children like me are the ones who grow up to be someone that everyone wishes they could be.”
― Kheryn Callender, Hurricane Child

tags: childhood, loneliness, school

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“It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.”
― Sam Savage, Firmin

tags: animals, books, cynicism, rats

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