"How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair"

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#Sorrow Quotes #Despair Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“I love depressing movies and depressing books.”
“It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment â€” the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. Itâ€™s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.”
“But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.”
“I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said to me about her. You will love her more tomorrow than today and how you want to die with her hand in yoursâ€“which is an excellent line, by the way, that I fully intend to borrow when the time comes.”
“A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.”

Source : Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press
“If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light.”
“I wake up every morning and say to myself, Well, I'm still in New York. Thank you, God.”

Source : "The Proust Questionnaire: Ed Koch". Vanity Fair interview, www.vanityfair.com. February 2013.
“Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.”

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