Two Worlds Quotes - Page 4

• The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

  Steven Pressfield

  Pain, Artist, Men

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.45, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

  William Boyd

  Art, Two, Rocks

  "William Boyd: Why I love Keane" by William Boyd, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2012.

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• Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Confused, Real, Lying

  Source: slushpile.net

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• Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in Europe again, ever. That was a fabulous success. It was so fabulous that people now take it for granted.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Europe, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Two, World, Limits

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• I read Zuleika Dobson with pleasure. It represents the Oxford that the two World Wars have destroyed with a charm that is not likely to be reproduced anywhere in the world for the next thousand years.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Years, Oxford

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• I've always written towards movies that take place across two worlds. Most of the movies that I've worked on take place in two worlds, or sometimes three worlds, where you have a normal world and a fantasy world that mix and overlap. I never shy away from the series stuff in the real world. Big Fish is about mortality.

  John August

  Real, Two, Big Fish

  Source: collider.com

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• The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West. The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.

  Aga Khan IV

  Real, Ignorance, Two

  Speech at the "Musée-Musées" Round Table Louvre Museum, www.akdn.org. October 17, 2007.

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• All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Distance, Moving

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• The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Men, Data

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• Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Two, World, Swiss

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.

  Baron Vaughn

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Two, People

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• I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.

  Robert Barry

  Political Opinions, Two, World

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

  Ian Bremmer

  War, Rivals, American Power

  "A World Without Leadership: Ten Questions with Ian Bremmer (Part 1)". Interview with Ali Wyne, bigthink.com. May 6, 2012.

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• We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately it's been a bloody, trying, wasteful, but eventually positive struggle.

  Michael Scheuer

  Religious, War, Struggle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Opposites

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology.

  Thomas Keating

  War, Loss, Technology

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We must never again let America be led into a fratricidal war like the last two world wars, for the sake of alien, minority interests.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  War, America, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City.

  Lev Yashin

  Boys, Class, Cities

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• How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

  Edwin Way Teale

  War, Two, Numbers

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• I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Struggle, Data, Two

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• Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.

  Billy Corgan

  Here I Am, Two, Floating

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• It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.

  S. E. Hinton

  Sunset, Two, Different

  S. E. Hinton (1995). “The Outsiders: That was Then, this is Now ; Rumble Fish”

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