"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."

-- Herman Melville

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“Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.”
“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”

Source : Chuck Jones (1999). “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist”, p.23, Macmillan
“I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.”
“Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.301, Open Road Media
“What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.”
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
“There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.”
“I certainly donâ€™t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that itâ€™s become so powerful in the world and itâ€™s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I donâ€™t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.”

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