"...candid still photography had taken over... What was interesting was that the photographs came without any intention of instructing you... You're like a cat looking out the window. You don't have to even know what you're watching, but you're watching it, and you're watching it very accurately."

-- D. A. Pennebaker

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“I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.”
“Chris Washburne is a superior hard bop player...”
“If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.”
“Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her.”
“She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.”
“Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners.”
“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”
“Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible,”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015

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