"It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual."

-- Gene Wolfe

#Memories Quotes #Childhood Quotes #May Quotes

“I've directed independent film.”
“You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.”
“My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.”
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”

Source : Myra MacPherson (2009). “Long Time Passing, New Edition: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation”, p.612, Indiana University Press
“When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.”
“Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”

Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Book published by Nobelstiftelsen, 2001.
“I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.”

Source : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, William Kentridge (1998). “William Kentridge”, Societe Des Expositions Des Beaux
“It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.”

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