"The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Memories Quotes #Data Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.”
“Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.”
“What I enjoyed about being in the world of Jessica Jones, as Luke Cage, is that I wasn't front and center because it was Jessica Jones' story, but it allowed me to find the character from a different perspective.”
“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”
“It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan
“All of my style came from listening to records.”
“One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.”
“So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn There's vultures and thieves at your back The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies That you make up for all that you lack. It don't make no difference, escaping one last time It's easier to believe In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness That brings me to my knees.”

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