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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
Penelope Lively
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Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.
Daniel Pinchbeck
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Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.
Robert Lanza
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Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways
Alvin Toffler
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My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
Cynthia Weil
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Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!
Jean Dieudonne
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
J. G. Ballard
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Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.
Robert Lanza
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I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.
Sandra Cisneros
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Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.
Todd Haynes
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The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood
Andrew Lo
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
Annie Leonard
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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
Peter J. Carroll
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Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.
Michael Lee-Chin
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It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.
Richard Holbrooke
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Most scripts are so linear and simplistic in their plotline.
Curtis Hanson
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Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.
Karin Tidbeck
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The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.
David Foster Wallace
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I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
Hilary Mantel
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A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.
Renata Adler
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I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.
Frank Gehry
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The western mind is linear, the eastern mind is circular.
Rajneesh
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I don't think that there is any hard and fast rule that says that documentary has to be linear at all.
Brian Lindstrom
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History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.
Ben H. Winters
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The way we teach is a very linear kind of way.
Terry Bozzio
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Nothing about my life or my career has been linear.
JoAnn Ross