"Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?"

-- W. S. Di Piero

#Enthusiasm Quotes #Distraction Quotes #Staring Quotes

“Art and morality are, with certain provisosâ€¦one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

Source : 1959 'The Sublime and the Good'.
“I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual" (...). "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle (...). Homosexualism is a sexual preference.”

Source : "Niech Homo Bedzie Homo". Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz's blog (translated), August 31, 2007.
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
“For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.”
“That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about”
“Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.”
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage

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