"Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography."

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Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”

Frederick H. Evans

#Trying Quotes #Topography Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Smile at a stranger. See what happens.”
“The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well. In a Tarantino war, everyone commits atrocities. Like all the director's work after 'Jackie Brown,' the movie is pure sensation. It's disconnected from feeling, and an eerie blankness--it's too shallow to be called nihilism--undermines even the best scenes.”

Source : David Denby (2013). “Do the Movies Have a Future?”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
“Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head”
“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”

Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.
“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”

Source : Richard K. Morgan (2007). “Thirteen”, p.245, Del Rey
“I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.”

Source : "Actor-writer Ayad Akhtar". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2012.
“All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.”

Source : "Israel's 'bomb in the basement'" by John Vause, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2004.
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything”

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