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Allen Grossman quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.”
-- Allen Grossman

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“Do not be content with an imaginary god.”
-- Allen Grossman

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“If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.”
-- Allen Grossman

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“To fight, we must have oil for our machine.”
“Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.”
“Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.”
“I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.”
“I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.”
“It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.”
“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
“Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.”
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
“We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.”

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