"Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui."

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Imagination Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a movie. It's an apocalyptic thriller, and it's really cool. It's the first movie I ever shot.”
“I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.”
“Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.”
“I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.”
“Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.”
“If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead ...”
“The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.”

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