"will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?"

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Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

Carolina Maria de Jesus

#Beautiful Quotes #Drama Quotes #Eating Quotes

“I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2015
“Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.”
“When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow...”

Source : "Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate". Book by J. M. Cohen, 1987.
“This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.”
“The people playing on these songs are from Wisconsin and Illinois and Chicago and St. Louis and thereâ€™s a certain attitude that comes across in the songs and the way that theyâ€™re performed. Iâ€™m born and raised in the Midwest, and my familyâ€™s been here for generations. This is where Iâ€™m from and how I think, and thatâ€™s reflected in the music I make.”
“Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
“The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.”
“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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