"There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience."

-- Immanuel Kant

“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”
“No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.30, New Directions Publishing
“When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”
“No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.”
“If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”
“It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.”
“A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.93, Grove Press

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