"America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!"

-- Tom Wolfe

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
“Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.”
“Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!”
“I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138”
“[Dada is] perfectly kindhearted malice, alongside exact photography the only legitimate pictorial form of communication and balance in shared experience.”
“I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.”

Source : "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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