"We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through."

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Source : Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

Anne Lamott

“While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.”
“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.”
“A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of ***** and the grunting of hogs.”
“In Cannes, I try to find somebody's apartment that I can cook at. I always go shopping in the marche and try to make a meal and set up a whole space outside the business. I'll try to go to at least two or three movies that I know there's no way in hell I'll be involved with from a business perspective. You have to indulge your cinephilic needs.”

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“But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I canâ€™t help people eat cereal any longer.”

Source : Rivka Galchen (2014). “American Innovations: Stories”, p.10, Macmillan
“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.”

Source : Heinrich Hertz (1896). “Miscellaneous Papers”
“You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.”
“The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.”

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