"People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate."

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Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

John Pfahl

#Thinking Quotes #Opposites Quotes #People Quotes

“Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?”
“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will get it.”

Source : George Singleton (2008). “Pep Talks, Warnings, And Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom And Cautionary Advice For Writers”, p.46, Writer's Digest Books
“I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues...”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.”
“Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!”
“As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.”
“The only punk that I really care about and am an expert on is the original punk of 1976 to 1979.”

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