"The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns."

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Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.19, Anchor

Naguib Mahfouz

#Memories Quotes #Magic Quotes #Return Quotes

“Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.”
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yieldingâ€” certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
“We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.”
“The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.”
“The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.”
“Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.”
“In the end, we'll all become stories.”

Source : "Moral Disorder". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 4, 2006.
“You can't direct yourself but if you're in the moment and you feel it, there's nothing more you can do but hope there was some truth captured for the screen.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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