"The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me."

-- Ray Metzker

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“There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.”

Source : "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.
“I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.”

Source : 'An Interlude'
“The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”
“What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?”
“It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.”
“Donâ€™t limit yourself and donâ€™t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.”
“A garden is never so good as it will be next year.”
“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”

Source : James Schuyler, Nathan Kernan (1997). “The diary of James Schuyler”, Black Sparrow Pr

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