"Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory."

-- Joan Fontcuberta

#Photography Quotes #Memories Quotes #Distance Quotes

“Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2017). “The History Man: Picador Classic”, p.141, Pan Macmillan
“I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth,”
“A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.23, Wakefield Press
“I like to be on the edge of the possible.”
“The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.”
“I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.”
“Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis.”
“Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm look as if they would last forever; but the calm and the morning cannot be stayed; the storm in its very nature is transient. The effort of nature, as that of the human heart, ever is to return to its repose, for God is Peace.”

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