"My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour or like an oxygen tank when you can't breath in a world consumed by piety, hypocrisy and self-satisfaction."

-- Simon Critchley

#Dark Quotes #Self Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.31, Macmillan
“Whenever I got a shot, the team that selected me, I just promised myself that I would give them something that they wouldn't regret... The Chicago Bears drafted me, and I'm going to make sure they're not second-guessing themselves about that.”
“Whether philosophically you believe in a public subsidization of an arena or a stadium, that's the reality. We can't have professional basketball in this community by the end of our lease in 2010 without subsidization.”
“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”
“Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.”
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
“Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.”
“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.

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