"True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Light Quotes #Shining Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that freedom and that love that I remember from being a child and spending a day drawing without worrying about whether what I'm drawing is real or strange.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lloyd Goodrich (1947). “Albert P. Ryder: centenary exhibition ; Oct. 18 to Nov. 30, 1947”
“I'm more relaxed. I know I have difficulties with some verbs. But if they get me, they get me. And if they don't understand me, they don't understand me.”
“We have been cooperating with both the United States and Russia, have been actively supporting a greater understanding between them.”
“Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.”
“I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.”
“When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!”
“If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.”

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