Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
DAVID LYNCHSugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
More David Lynch Quotes
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The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.
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Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen, I love the process of going into mystery.
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Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.
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I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
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Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
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The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.
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There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
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I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.
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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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We only dream of images we already have inside of us.
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There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
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Don’t make a film if it can’t be the film you want to make. It’s a joke, and a sick joke, and it’ll kill you.
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