“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”
Source: White Noise (1984)
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American novelist, playwright and essayist 1936Related quotes
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
William H. Starbuck (1934) American academic
Source: Learning by knowledge‐intensive firms," 1992, p. 716
Context: In deciding whether a firm is knowledge-intensive, one ought to weigh its emphasis on esoteric expertise instead of widely shared knowledge. Everybody has knowledge, most of it widely shared, but some idiosyncratic and personal. If one defines knowledge broadly to encompass what everybody knows, every firm can appear knowledge-intensive. One loses the value of focusing on a special category of firms. Similarly, every firm has some unusual expertise. To make the knowledge-intensive firm a useful category, one has to require that exceptional expertise make important contributions. One should not label a firm as knowledge-intensive unless exceptional and valuable expertise dominates commonplace knowledge.
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to S. S. Koteliansky, as quoted in "Always my thoughts & feelings go back to New Zealand" by Vincent O'Sullivan, in NZ Listener Vol 214 No 3556, (July 5-11 2008) http://www.nzlistener.co.nz/issue/3556/features/11387/printable/always_my_thoughts_feelings_go_back_to_new_zealand.html;jsessionid=7E38C804BAA963EB74F59C8EA61F048B <br class="br">Context: The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united. Shall I succeed? I scarcely care. What is important is to try & learn to live, and in relation to everything – not isolated. This isolation is death to me.
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) English painter
As quoted in Sermon by Artists (1934) Golden Cockerel Press
“The world is full of ways and means to waste time.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
“I often find poems hand written in old abandoned notebooks.”
Dermot Healy (1947–2014) Irish writer
Penguin Group (2013) A Conversation with Dermot Healy http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/long_time_no_see.html, Penguin US, accessed May 5, 2013