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"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
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"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
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"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
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"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
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"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
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"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
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"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"If you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain..."
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"In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west."
Direction
"As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot."
Innovation
"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."
Career
"The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals."
Goal
"The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south."
Man
"You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art."
Art
"He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles."
Life
"The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control."
Control
"The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years."
Home
"Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have."
Death
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