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The Germ

«The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work»
«Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent ''I',' the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality.»
«Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck | About: Graduation, Growth | Keywords: contains, germ, germs, The Germ
«The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know t»
«To perceive things in the germ is intelligence»
Author: Lao Tzu (Philosopher) | About: Intelligence | Keywords: germ, The Germ
«Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.»