"Iâ€™m frequently asked why I donâ€™t write my memoirs. I think I have."

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Pauline Kael

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.”
“I donâ€™t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I donâ€™t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.149, Penguin
“I feel thereâ€™s an existential angst among young people. I didnâ€™t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”
“There is no substitute for a militant freedom.”
“When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.”
“That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.”
“People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.”
“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”

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