"Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would."

-- Elena Ferrante

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“And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.”
“The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.”
“The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.”
“I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.”

Source : Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”
“Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!”
“Thoughts race, as if, in a mind devoid of memory, each idea has too much space to grow and move, to collide with others in a shower of sparks before spinning off into its own distance.”

Source : S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.308, Random House
“Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!”
“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”

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