#Romance Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Painting Quotes
“Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.”
“The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”
“Isn't television glamourous?”
“A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love”
Source : Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Waisman (2000). “The Absent City”, p.110, Duke University Press
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.”
“Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.”
“Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.”
