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I think of myself as a kind of pulverizing machine into which everything I look at and feel is fed. I believe that I am different from the mixed-media jackdaws who use photographs etc. more or less literally.
Piano, n. A parlour utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutelyset, ingeniousmachinefor turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
Too much importance isgiven thewriterand not enough to his work.What difference does it make who he is and what he feels, since he's merelya machine for transmission of ideas. In reality he doesn't existhe's a cipher, a blank. A spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death.
Only thestudyof militaryhistory iscapable of giving those who have no experience of their own a clear picture of what I have just called the friction of the whole machine.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the workall planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.
A reading machine, always wound up and going, He mastered whatever was not worth knowing.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
Oh, no, the machine, the machine is necessary. A man comesintoagreat hotelandsays,Iama messenger. Who is this man? He disappears walking, there is no noise, nothing. Maybe he will never come back, maybe he will never deliver the message.But a man who rides up on a great machine, this man is responsible, this man exists. He will be given messages.
Words are beautiful things, but muskets and machine guns are even more beautiful.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
He was like a man who takes a machine-gun to a shooting gallery. Everybody falls flat on his face, the proprietor at once takes to the hills, and when you cautiously peep up, you find that he has wrecked the place but got three perfect bull's-eyes.
Thankstohis bodily formand thankstohismind, [man] is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine.
You're not a man, you're a machine.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.
The automatic machine, whatever we thinkof any feelings it may or may not have, is the precise economic equivalent of the slave.
Themachineisrunning away withhimasit ranaway with me.
And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command.
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