"Like the weaver, the writer works on the wrong side of his material. He has only to do with the language, and it is thus that he suddenly finds himself surrounded by sense."

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Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.82, Northwestern University Press

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Sides Quotes #Language Quotes #Weavers Quotes

“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.”
“I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each otherâ€™s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.”
“I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.”
“What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.”

Source : "Maria Callas: The Callas Conversations" by Maria Callas. an Interview in Paris with Lord Harewood for the BBC (April 1968). EMI Classics DVD, 2004.
“English is my second language. Laughter is my first.”

Source : "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.
“Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's also a lack of morals - it's one affair after the other. A system like that cannot be successful.”
“If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss”

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