"I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them."

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

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“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”
“It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.”
“If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.”
“What is exciting today is that with technology filmmaking has been democratized, and so many more people have access to making a film.”

Source : "Interview: Producer & CEO Julie Smolyansky, 2017 Women in Film Chicago Focus Awards Honoree". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. February 21, 2017.
“I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.”
“The more you connect to the Power within you, the more you can be free in all areas of your life.”
“True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.”
“But I am not what I say or what I do or what I remember. I am fundamentally more than that.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2014). “Lisa Genova eBox Set: Still Alice, Left Neglected, and Love Anthony”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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