Vicente Huidobro quotes

“The four cardinal points are three: South and North.”
-- Vicente Huidobro

Source : Vicente Huidobro, Eliot Weinberger (2003). “Altazor (Revised Edition).”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.”

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

“One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.”

Source : "Bipolar disorder doesn't just affect film stars" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

“I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.”

“And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.”

“I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.”

“A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.”

“There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2013). “Migraine”, p.309, Vintage