Quotations and Literature Forum

Spring is in the air.

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."

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I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
~ "West With the Night," I941, Beryl Markham, English aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic east to west, 1936; wrote memoirs in "West With the Night,"

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Ish yara al-ahdab hadbat-u. (A hunchback does not see his own hunch.--Folk Saying.) Bene Gesserit Commentary: The hunch may be seen with the aid of mirrors but mirrors may show the whole being.
--from Chapterhouse Dune, and are the property of Frank Herbert. The Bashar Teg

Someone had told me the delightful story of a crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and left the key in care of his best friend in case of his death. He had barely ridden away a few miles when he saw his friend riding out after him, calling out: ‘You gave me the wrong key!’

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