"What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?"

-- Ben Katchor

#Ghetto Quotes #Eye Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.”
“The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.”
“Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.”
“Movies are not a growth business,”

Source : "Jeff Shell, Les Moonves Zing Katzenberg: Movies 'Tremendous Growth Business'" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2014.
“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.”
“We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics”
“So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.”
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward--that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage

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