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“When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.”

Writing May Art Pay Attention Subjects Reader Scientist Proof Pay Attention Something New Rejected Discomfort

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

Knows Long Simple Attention Seeing Forgotten Pay Attention Revelations Finding Yourself Something New Long Ago Cliche Psychedelic Simple Things Liable

Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.”

Giving Stills Happens Pleasure Attention Too Much Waste Concern Cameras Forests Something New Evaluate Tempo Motion Pictures Best American

Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

“If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually ‘blocking’ communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society.”

Ifs Giving May Ends Problem Able Individual Attention Communication Block Significance Something New Attending

Book:On Dialogue

Source: On Dialogue

“There's always something new with sex. We lived in a world without Viagra, now we live in a world with Viagra. We lived in a world without blowjobs and anilingus in the Oval Office, and then it happens and you get to write about it. We live in a world where now the government is screwing with contraception and holding back vaccines that could save 4,000 women's lives a year, and you get to write about that. It's not as much fun as anilingus in the Oval Office, but what are you going to do? If you pay attention, there's always something new, and it's always really invigorating.”

Ifs World Writing Years Government Happens Fun Sex Pay Attention Office Pay Attention Something New Vaccines Contraception Oval Holding Back Invigorating Viagra

Author:Dan Savage

“I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.”

Happens Eye Attention Fronts Happenings Paid Something New Passages Passage Of Time

Author:William Eggleston