"Seeing is a neglected enterprise."

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Source : "Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York's Palette, Dies at 89" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 2013.

Saul Leiter

#Neglected Quotes #Enterprise Quotes

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.”
“We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be.”
“A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.”

Source : T.J. Stiles (2009). “The First Tycoon”, p.19, Vintage
“It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.”
“Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.”

Source : "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.
“You have a traitor there, Aslan," said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said.”
“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

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