"No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Past Quotes #Long Quotes #Matter Quotes

“This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.”
“Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.”

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“I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.”
“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”
“It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.”
“If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.”
“Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy. Sure. What is it? Hold Granuailes staff for just a minute. You know, rest it on the ground so that its like a walking stick or something and the top of it is near your right cheek. Granuaile and I traded weapons to humor him and I stood as instructed. Thats perfect! Now say this like Sir Ian McKellen I am Atticus the White, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”
“I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.”

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