"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."

Nature, Success, Failure, Questioning

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"Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."

Past

"I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things sometimes go."

Pretty

"With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement reduced to archetypes."

Achievement

"My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained."

Nature

"This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion."

Reflection

"Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside."

Work

"The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction."

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"So: we're all tired. Now what? Manuscripts written in Club Med?"

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"In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'"

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"If nothing is at risk, nothing is established."

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