"Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order."

-- Jonas Mekas

#New York Quotes #Reality Quotes #Order Quotes

“It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.”

Source : Michael Frayn (1985). “Plays--one”, Methuen Drama
“If you want something youâ€™ve never had, you must be willing to do something youâ€™ve never done.”
“People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.”
“He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.”

Source : "Stand up and be counted" by Sam Taylor, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2000.
“People's hearts can't be seen by the naked eye. But it doesn't matter, because you are not alone!”
“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”
“One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.”

Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.
“I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.”

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