"Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic."

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Gordon Willis

“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”
“Pain is the touchstone of all growth”
“We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.”
“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
“And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.”
“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.269, Random House
“When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.”
“Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.”

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