"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."

-- Gaston Bachelard

#Fire Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book.”
“Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.”

Source : Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.”
“Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.”
“Only by transforming our own economy to one of peace can we make possible economic democracy in the Third World or our own country. The present economy generates wars to protect its profits and its short-term interests, while squandering the future. Unless we transform the economy, we cannot end war.”
“I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes.”

Source : "A Library That Would Rather Block Than Offend," by Pamela Mendels, The New York Times, archive.nytimes.com. January 18, 199.

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