"New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with."

-- Djuna Barnes

#New York Quotes #Men Quotes #Water Quotes

“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”
“This one looks good,â€ said Chong over breakfast the next morning. Benny read out loud from the paper. â€œâ€˜Pit Thrower.â€™ Whatâ€™s that?â€ â€œI donâ€™t know,â€ Chong said with a mouth full of toast. â€œI think it has something to do with barbecuing.â€ It didnâ€™t.”
“Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.”

Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.54, St. Martin's Press
“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”
“Great lives never go out; they go on.”
“I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.”
“[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at.”

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