"I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered I didn't need to. If the thing is there, why, there it is."

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Source : "Walker Evans at Fortune, 1945-1965".

Walker Evans

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“Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?”
“Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.”
“I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.”

Source : "Kether Donohue explains Lindsay's violent outburst on You're The Worst". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2016.
“Itâ€™s as much a writerâ€™s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.”
“We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable of watching all of these things. Those who practice self-cultivation find that mind; they live with it and they die with it.”
“The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.”
“When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.”
“I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.”

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