"I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy."

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Source : 'Journal of a Disappointed Man' (1919) 23 Oct. 1910

W.N.P. Barbellion

#Children Quotes #Mind Quotes #Normal Quotes

“Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.”
“When I do think, â€˜Man a fâ€”cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,â€™ I just look over at my dog and remember that Busterâ€™s never seen me high.”
“The idea is that Jodie Foster is with her child and she's going back to New York from Germany with her husband's body. She loses her child on a plane, and you think, 'How can that happen?' There's no record of her having brought a child onto the plane, and the captain is left wondering about whether she's telling the truth. You never really know if she's telling the truth or not.”
“One has to do something new in order to see something new.”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 1770, 1799.
“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.”
“The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.”
“Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.”
“I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.”

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