“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
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German novelist 1898–1970Related quotes
“Practice makes perfect' is bullshit. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
The Coach, P. 23. (1977)
“Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”
"Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/fun.html, Tribune (20 December 1943)
Context: Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
interview with Joan Simon, 1995 in Perfection is in the Mind, p. 86; as quoted in A House Divided: American Art Since 1955, Anne M. G. Wagner, Univ. of California Press, 2012, p. 263
1980 - 2000
“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”
“The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower