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Loren Eiseley

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

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"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."

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"Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before."

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"When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone."

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"God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course."

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