Ritual Quotes - Page 30

• Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Design, Perception, Mind

  Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Unique, Location

  Walter Benjamin (2015). “Illuminations”, p.170, Random House

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• Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Reading, Light, Darkness

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• The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words written. Such rituals provide a structure to work in, whether or not the feeling of motivation or inspiration happens to be present. They let people work alongside negative or positive emotions, instead of getting distracted by the effort of cultivating only positive ones. ‘Inspiration is for amateurs,’ the artist Chuck Close once memorably observed. ‘The rest of us just show up and get to work.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Artist

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• You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Next, Excitement

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.75, Oneworld Publications

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• When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

  Betsy Lerner

  Sex, Revenge, Book

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Boxing, Soul

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he comes down and checks on folks, so long as they hang in certain places, put up alters, burn lots of candles and incense, and perform sit-stand-kneel and other wacky rituals that'd make a coven of witches not look OCD.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Believe, Long, Church

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.136, Delacorte Press

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