"I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture.Â I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do."

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Source : Saul Leiter, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2008). “Saul Leiter”, Steidl / Edition7L

Saul Leiter

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“Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.”
“I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.”
“For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?”

Source : Merlin Stone (2012). “When God Was A Woman”, p.36, Doubleday
“I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.”
“Acting is very start and stop.”
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”
“One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.”

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