"For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them."

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John Banville

#Memories Quotes #Real Quotes #Oysters Quotes

“For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.”
“you can't really separate modernity from history or spiritual concerns from mundane ones. Everything feeds into everything else.”
“We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.”
“The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.”
“I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.”
“I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.”

Source : "OPEN SEASON: An Interview with Martin Lawrence". Interview with Fred Topel, www.blackfilm.com. September 25, 2006.
“All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.”
“In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.”

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