"When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator."

-- Robert Adams

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“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident and removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of the ruin is simple and obvious: and instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed we should rather be surprised that it has subsisted for so long.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (1906). “The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire”
“Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?”
“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”
“Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.”
“I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up." p. 382”

Source : Monica Ali (2008). “Brick Lane: A Novel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

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