"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."

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Richard Russo

#Together Quotes #Scene Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.”

Source : Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.”

Source : Song: Rock Island Line
“I've always been a fine artist.”
“One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.”
“I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.”
“Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.”
“Everyone has a fantasy of what they want their band to sound like. However, because I knew nothing about making music, I was unable to describe what I wanted properly.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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