Trinh T. Minh-ha famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.
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Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.
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despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.
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Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional
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It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.
-- Trinh T. Minh-ha
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Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana," he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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The boring side of business is what makes it work.
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
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Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
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The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.
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