#Art Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Bricks Quotes
“Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you”
“Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing ones guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.”
“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.”
“You and me?†I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.†“That’s what you think,†Chaz says, tugging on his coat. “And I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around until you figure out that isn’t true.†“Fine,†I say “I’m not asking you to, am I?†“No.†Chaz is smiling… but not like he’s happy. “But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you.†And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it, slamming it closed behind him with enough force to cause the windowpanes to rattle. And then he’s gone.”
“Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.”
“A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, It makes me want to write poetry.”
“For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …”
“Across the land a faint blue veil of mist Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist The drooping cherry orchards of October Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves Russet and orange: all things now decay; Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves, And sad the robins pipe at set of day.”
Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”
Paul Brooks Film Producer
Aleks Paunovic
