"Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick."

-- Robert Adams

#Summer Quotes #Children Quotes #Night Quotes

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

Source : "'Das Wesen der Materie' ('The Nature of Matter')". Speech in Florence, Italy,, 1944.
“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.”
“There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.”
“Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader”
“But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.”
“The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.”
“That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down as if I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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