"A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected."

-- Martine Franck

#Photography Quotes #Lying Quotes #Fleeting Quotes

“And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.”
“My art is not an answer, it is a question.”
“All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.”
“It is wonderful. It truly is. It is the only thing that is real! It's you against me, it's challenging another guy's manhood. With gloves. Words cannot describe that feeling of being a man, of being a gladiator, of being a warrior. It's irreplaceable.”
“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2001). “Aiding and Abetting: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor
“Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk”
“Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.”
“The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.”

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