"As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves."

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Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anna Akhmatova

#Past Quotes #Festivals Quotes #Terrible Quotes

“You don't know me yet," I said. "Rory was telling me she lives in a swamp," Charlotte said. "That's right," I said, turning up my accent a little. "These are the very first shoes I've ever owned. They sure do pinch my feet." Jerome gave a little snort.”
“The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.”
“Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.”
“When success is your only option, positivity has to be your only choice.”
“Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.”

Source : Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.”
“I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.”

Source : "No rules in Bollywood: Irrfan Khan" by Purva Desai |, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating, no matter what.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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