"It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life."

-- Francesca Marciano

#Giving Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Easy Quotes

“Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.”
“We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.”
“Water will be more important than oil this century”
“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”
“The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2000). “The Language of Inquiry”, p.207, Univ of California Press
“I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.”
“The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were never spoken...out bubbled all the words he had swallowed when he was alive.”
“As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.”

You may also like:

Bernardo Bertolucci
Film director
Elizabeth McCracken
Author