"The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things."

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Source : Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

Garrett Hardin

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“When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.”
“I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.”
“The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.”

Source : "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.
“I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.”
“Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.”

Source : Song: I Believe, Album: Faith
“You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.”
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”

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