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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton

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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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Nature
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery –even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness –is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. – Andre Breton

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Imagination
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. – Andre Breton

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Surrealism
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Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. – John Deacon

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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth. – Thomas Huxley

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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. – Alfred Hitchcock

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Science

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction. – Joan D. Vinge

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What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. – Robert E. Lee

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A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

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Its a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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