"Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting."

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Source : August Strindberg (1962). “Plays”

August Strindberg

#Nice Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Growing Quotes

“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.”
“For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.”
“Byrnes... was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior. Russian troops had moved into Hungary and Rumania, and Byrnes thought it would be very difficult to persuade Russia to withdraw her troops from these countries, that Russia might be more manageable if impressed by American military might, and that a demonstration of the bomb might impress Russia.”
“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”
“We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.”
“What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.”
“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”
“I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”

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