"The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes."

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Source : Susan Sontag (2008). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Susan Sontag

#Wish Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“This hill crossed with broken pines and maples lumpy with the burial mounds of uprooted hemlocks (hurricane of '38) out of their rotting hearts generations rise trying once more to become the forest just beyond them tall enough to be called trees in their youth like aspen a bouquet of young beech is gathered they still wear last summer's leaves the lightest brown almost translucent how their stubbornness has decorated the winter woods.”
“The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.”
“No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.”
“The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.”
“As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.”
“You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.”
“I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.”

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