"The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage."

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Source : Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

Wyndham Lewis

#Depressing Quotes #Cities Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.”
“A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.”

Source : Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.30, Penguin
“My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.”
“I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.”
“With material wealth and in a culture where many of us defines our self-worth by what we have and what we own and what we achieve, it's very hard to comprehend that there are enclaves all over our big country in which people are very purposefully choosing to maintain different values.”

Source : "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.
“We forgot this continent for a long time - and now, finally Africa is being rediscovered.”
“In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”
“You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.”

Source : Source: postgradproblems.com

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