"The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread."

-- Adam Parfrey

#Gestalt Quotes #Able Quotes #Talismans Quotes

“The best models in the industry are the ones who feel comfortable on the set. If she doesn't feel comfortable, the images won't be beautiful.”
“I still have the passion to play.”
“It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told my father, "I will call you up in one hour when I see more clearly what's going on." After an hour, Speidel said, "Yes, the landing took place in Normandy." And the German Navy had told my father that it was too stormy. And that the British and the Americans and the French can't come. And my father believed him.”
“Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.”
“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.29, Basic Books
“In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives.”
“Heaven is not for good people, it's for forgiven people.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015
“There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.”

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