“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.” PeopleWayBookSometimesLiteratureDealsFictionQualityTruth IsPureAssumingResponseCuriosityMediumsAffectedOutlook Author:Vance Palmer
“I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.” DoeDealsPaintingPureHopefullyEnjoymentCanvas Author:Donald Trump
“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.” WorldFeelsMadeStillsBodyWantedPurposeFeltPleasureDealsPureSolitudeRootsInventionParallelsNostalgic Author:Jean Dubuffet
“Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.” WayWellsDealsFivePurePercentPlusPhilanthropy Author:Cecil Rhodes
“The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from pure logic.... Most of the time, reaching the right decision requires little reasoning.... Expert systems are, thus, not about reasoning: they are about knowing.... Reasoning takes time, so we try to do it as seldom as possible. Instead we store the results of our reasoning for later reference.” WayTryingLittlesProblemMovingDecisionResultsDealsKnowingPureResearchLogicComplexesStoresExpertsReasoningReachingParadoxArtificial IntelligenceTake TimeRight DecisionComplex Problems Author:Daniel Crevier
“When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.” ReasonDealsBuddhismPureIncrediblesWitnessDesert Author:Frederick Lenz
“You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.” MenArtTwoLiteratureDealsActingEmotionPureMathematicsExtremesStatementsArt And ScienceThoughts And EmotionsTwo Extremes Author:Arthur Quiller-Couch
“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.” WayArtistEnjoySimpleDealsPureHumbleAcceptedEditorsContractsPublishersGalaxyBe HumbleCastesInsistingCaste System Author:Jack Kirby