What did Gene Wolfe mean by: Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something. - Gene Wolfe Author Copy
+ Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gene Wolfe, Mechanism, Psychological, Reality, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gene Wolfe, Novel, Writing, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gene Wolfe, Remains, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. Feraz Zeid, August 11, 2023December 12, 2023, Gene Wolfe, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. Feraz Zeid, August 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Gene Wolfe, Payment, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ …I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, Gene Wolfe, Flaws, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ …in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gene Wolfe, Oneself, Winning, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
+ Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024February 9, 2024, Gene Wolfe, Change, Echoes, Tanks, 0 - Gene Wolfe Author
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
