"Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it."

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Source : Frank Lentricchia (2011). “The Sadness of Antonioni”, p.238, SUNY Press

Frank Lentricchia

#Communication Quotes #Black And White Quotes #Past Quotes

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”
“The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.”

Source : Christopher Dawson, Gerald J. Russello (1998). “Christianity and European Culture (Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson)”, p.118, CUA Press
“I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.”
“It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.”
“We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else,”
“Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world.”
“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”

Source : The Essential Lenny Bruce, ed. John Cohen (1967)
“Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.”

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