"They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye."

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Ann Aguirre

#Memories Quotes #Moving Quotes #Dust Quotes

“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.”
“The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...”
“Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.”

Source : James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books
“Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer â€” unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.”
“You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.”
“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.”
“Anything that gets children reading is fine.”

Source : "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.
“I'm so bad at lyrics. I'm always trying to get better. Sometimes, the song can restrict your lyrics - if you're trying to make a poppy song, you don't want to sing something that sounds like it could be on an At the Drive-In song.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2013.

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