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Famous Quotes By Anthony Marais

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Nothing distresses the civilized person like unfettered nature. The Grand Canyon seen from behind the railing is indeed a splendid sight, but as soon as the desert reclaims your golf course that is another matter altogether. — Anthony Marais

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If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art - and only life is rich enough to simulate originality. — Anthony Marais

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Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have. — Anthony Marais

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We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since. — Anthony Marais

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We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend. — Anthony Marais

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If culture were clothing, it would be more like negligee than a parka. That's why it's so sexy. — Anthony Marais

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The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment. — Anthony Marais

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There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown. — Anthony Marais

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Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone. — Anthony Marais

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A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect. — Anthony Marais

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If pleasure is Nature's seal of approval, sleep is her reward. — Anthony Marais

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Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go! — Anthony Marais

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Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be. — Anthony Marais

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Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it. — Anthony Marais

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Marriage is a lie - the most beautiful lie two people can share. — Anthony Marais

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We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. We're either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel, the older we get, the more memories we collect. Nostalgia is simply the result of aging and liking the life you've lived. Be happy you can feel it - it's a good sign. — Anthony Marais

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Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time. — Anthony Marais

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Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves. — Anthony Marais

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Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one. — Anthony Marais

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Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank; they look for stones and hang on. — Anthony Marais

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Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence - as if duplicating oneself will make a right! — Anthony Marais

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To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter. — Anthony Marais

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Somethingism is better than nihilism. — Anthony Marais

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Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain! — Anthony Marais

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Humanity is as horrified and repulsed by real nature as it is by real death. Thus, we strike back against this formidable opponent with our sharpest weapon: our imagination. From this noble tool - born of necessity and elevated to beauty - culture was born, and the war against nature begun. — Anthony Marais

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How do you thank someone like Woody Allen or Milan Kundera - when they have shared ideas with you that are no less than life-saving, when they have given you some of your happiest moments, sharing what they have learned like a parent or a friend? Do you hunt them down and shake their hand? Do you ask for their autograph? Would that even the balance? And how do you thank Orson Welles or Oscar Wilde - people who are no longer with us? There is only one way to show your gratitude, and that is to give their precious gift back, return it the way you received it: write. — Anthony Marais

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Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different? — Anthony Marais

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Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life - they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn't turn and slap them. — Anthony Marais

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Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. — Anthony Marais

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There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring. — Anthony Marais

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Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for. — Anthony Marais

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Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth. — Anthony Marais

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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end. — Anthony Marais

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It's always the bastard who is most patriotic. — Anthony Marais

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From our myopia arose our dystopia. — Anthony Marais

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There is nothing wrong with being fascinated by the dark side of life, and ourselves, but woe to those who think this is representative of reality. All too many of us sit in our homes watching TV, falling prey to the delusion that the world is getting worse. If these sorry individuals spent more time meeting their neighbors, they'd discover that 95% of their peers are fine people. — Anthony Marais

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To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. — Anthony Marais

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Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature. — Anthony Marais

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Our most cultural state is one of total certainty - which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality). — Anthony Marais

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No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy. — Anthony Marais

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Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy. — Anthony Marais

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The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself. — Anthony Marais

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Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone. — Anthony Marais

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When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it! — Anthony Marais

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The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais

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Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs! — Anthony Marais

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We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures. — Anthony Marais

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A joke is a question of mind over manner. — Anthony Marais

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If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite. — Anthony Marais

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So many fear death - spending their precious waking hours discussing it - while failing to notice that deep sleep is no different. It's as if they don't hear Mother Nature telling them not to worry every day. — Anthony Marais

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There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it. — Anthony Marais

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Gape long enough into a looking glass and you'll eventually see beauty. The same can be said of self-analysis, and as soon as one apes oneself, a second monkey is born. — Anthony Marais

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To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights. — Anthony Marais

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Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic. — Anthony Marais

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The profound experience of childbirth does not produce profound people. If this were so, the guy with ten kids would be a prophet and priests would be out of work. — Anthony Marais

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If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck. — Anthony Marais

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It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life. — Anthony Marais

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Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd. — Anthony Marais

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To associate art with the artist is to forfeit art, because at this moment we are pushed into the arena of self-expression, and can be recognized only by what differentiates us from others. — Anthony Marais

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The price of maturity is exorbitant these days. Paying for wisdom with money is one thing, but when time becomes the currency, it's your life at stake. — Anthony Marais

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Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again. — Anthony Marais

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It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely. — Anthony Marais

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Homosexuality is the most beautiful aspect of humanity. For its existence is proof that altruism is natural; it is to demonstrate that the theory of the "survival of the fittest" can only apply to the species as a whole, and that reproduction is insufficient to secure our place in the great jungle of life, which means being nice is a more stable evolutionary strategy than making kids; and if the homosexual is attracted to religion or to art - or, in smaller societies, to shamanism or caring for other people's children - is this not due to his or her search for purpose? If so, then what we call purpose must be something that encompasses all modes of life. What we call love must be greater than child rearing or caring for a mate. — Anthony Marais

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Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone. — Anthony Marais

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The awe-inspiring beauty of nature is nothing more than being flabbergasted by our ignorance of it. Good art produces the same effect; and the worst thing an artist can do is to follow the herd, because domesticated art is about as dynamic as a domesticated animal. — Anthony Marais

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Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it. — Anthony Marais

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So many are obsessed with success that they fail to realize sleep is the best time of day and the second most important activity we do. In fact, it ranks so closely to the first activity, that many people confuse the terms. — Anthony Marais

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We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way. — Anthony Marais

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Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race. — Anthony Marais

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It could be said that the discovery of ourselves is at the heart of what we call enlightenment, which is to say that that big, bright light at the end of the tunnel is us. The problem is that no one wants to discover that we're no better or no worse than the rest - indeed, to discover that we're no different than the rest - because that's no fun. — Anthony Marais

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Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it's the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain. — Anthony Marais

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We should be carefree with our bodies and prudish with our brains, not the contrary. How virtuous we are with our flesh, and yet the first foul thought that comes our way is invited to the depths of our soul. — Anthony Marais

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In California depth is measured in feet: six feet on one end of the pool and three feet on the other. — Anthony Marais

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Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on. — Anthony Marais

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When a scientist splits an atom, the event is locked away like a jewel in a castle, funneling down to the public through a myriad of institutions. But when an artist stumbles upon the key to unleashing universal evil, the forbidden fruit of his painstaking labor is packaged and sold at every corner store from Bangor to Bangkok. I'm still unsure whether this is the result of a lack of respect for artists (compared to scientists) or the moral corruption of artists (compared to scientists). — Anthony Marais