"Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis."

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Source : Eloise Jarvis McGraw (2007). “The Moorchild”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“The breakdown of the modern movement led to what later became known as postmodern-whatever the hell that means-referring to the mixture of people and backgrounds that became a common thing among artists in America. Many of the great artists in America, for example, came from Jewish families and backgrounds that fled all the way from Russia. It's remarkable, the great masters of American art and cinema who were coming from old roots in little villages there. And then Hollywood, and the haunting, hypnotic impact that American Cinema had throughout the world . . .”
“Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.”
“We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”

Source : Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.31, Univ of California Press
“Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.”
“I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“When a casting agent sees me, he kind of knows what he's getting.”
“Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he ever would have thought possible. And if he wishes to live, he must do what he can to prevent the world he wants to live in from fading away. As long as there's war, life is a preventative measure.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.248, Vintage Canada
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

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