"History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London."

-- Helene Hanff

#Alive Quotes #London Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The Text is plural. Which is not simply to say that it has several meanings, but that it accomplishes the very plural of meaning: an irreducible (and not merely an acceptable) plural. The Text is not a co-existence of meanings but a passage, an overcrossing; thus it answers not to an interpretation, even a liberal one, but to an explosion, a dissemination.”

Source : "From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Proposition 4, 1971.
“There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.”
“Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.”
“I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.”
“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”

Source : "Alan Rickman Interview NOBEL SON" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2008.
“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”

Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press
“I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.”
“And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.”

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