"No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out."

-- Bohumil Hrabal

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”
“What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.”
“I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.”
“If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?”
“Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.”
“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.”
“There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy.”
“It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.”

Source : James Elkins (2011). “What Photography Is”, p.124, Routledge

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