"And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field."

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Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Yehuda Amichai

#Wire Quotes #Despair Quotes #Fields Quotes

“O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone; and you have no longer an aristocratical, no longer a democratical spirit. Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation, brought about by the punishment of those in power, inflicted by those who had no power at all?”
“The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.”
“We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.”
“If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation.”

Source : "The Fiery Fountains" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1951.
“I don't think I have ever been as inspired by any character that I have played. I was deeply moved by Temple's courage and her resourcefulness.. She is really pioneering in both the world of autism and animal rights. She has encouraged an incredibly positive change in the world.”
“The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she loses track of something that was driving her and has to figure out what's going to drive the next part of her mission, this mission to be an author. I had to push back away from her for a while before we could come up to that really lyrical close third in the final section.”

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“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”

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