"As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation."

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Source : Interview with Samuel Cohen, logger.believermag.com. September 11, 2012.

D. T. Max

#Narrators Quotes #Mistrust Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“The dis-incumbenced stance is the one people should cultivate, we are told, once they recognize that there is no world beyond the human world. They will, indeed must, have their beliefs and values, but they will recognize that these 'lean upon' - and are answerable to - nothing other than human commitments and purposes. The only fidelity, Rorty remarked, can be to our own conventions.”
“Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.”
“There are few treasures of more lasting worth than the experiences of a way of life that is in itself wholly satisfying. Such, after all, are the only possessions of which no fate, no cosmic catastrophe can deprive us; nothing can alter the fact if for one moment in eternity we have really lived.”

Source : Eric Shipton (2014). “Nanda Devi”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing
“An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!”
“Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.8, Da Capo Press
“I'm very much of the mindset that if you've made the record you wanted to make and there's nothing about it that you would change, then you should just be proud and happy with what you've done.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We were writing songs about girls when we still thought girls had cooties.”
“The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.”

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