"This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Animal Quotes #Aquariums Quotes #Berlin Quotes

“Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.”
“There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.”
“I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.”

Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.36, Del Rey
“I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.”
“I created my own space, which was called the cave. It was a live/work space in downtown Los Angeles on 7th and Spring. When I lived there it was quite derelict. I got this massive space and half of it was my bedroom and the other half of it was the back room - no [natural] light, all fluorescent lights.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...”
“Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.”
“The Lord won't confirm a lie.”

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