"Question your tea spoons."

--

Georges Perec

#Tea Quotes #Spoons Quotes

“Hi. There was a big accident, some people got decapitated, here are their names... You know what? That shirt really makes you look fat. I mean, the colour's all wrong... I mean, who shot the drapes?”
“You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!”
“This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.”

Source : Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart (2001). “The Shape of Irish History”
“As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul ...”
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
“The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.”
“Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.”

Source : "Juliette Binoche Honored at the Marrakesh International Film Festival" by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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