"In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it."

-- Susan Sontag

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“As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.”
“...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56
“That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.”
“Witches donâ€™t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
“To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.”

Source : 1989 Of the experience of facing fast bowlers. Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
“I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.”
“I guess home is where the heart is, as they say. I've moved around the stage a lot - but I had intended on moving to New York anyway so I could live closer to Ireland and to Europe. That's where my sensibility is. This has just facilitated that process.”

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