"In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations."

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Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

Eleanor Robson Belmont

#Reflection Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.”
“So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.”
“I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff.”
“The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.”
“Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.”
“I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.”

Source : "Hamish Linklater Stops Time, Fights Aliens, Discovers The Future". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2011.
“It may be a product of me being raised in episcopal church, but I have a love for ritual and theater and the significance of doing the exact same thing over and over. So I really love knowing every little thing I'm going to do during a show.”

Source : "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.
“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”

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