"Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)"

-- Stephen Levine

#Memories Quotes #Touching Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster.”
“Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.”
“I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.”

Source : David Lipsky (2010). “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace”, p.94, Broadway Books
“Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a pretty picture, not an exercise in contortionist techniques and sheer print quality. It is or should be a significant document, a penetrating statement, which can be described in a very simple term-selectivity.”
“History shows that there are no invincible armies.”
“I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I am not a fan of books.”
“Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.”

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