"We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Memories Quotes #Light Quotes #Soul Quotes

“What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.”
“The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.”
“Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial, and metaphor can be dubious. But taken together, as in the best work of people like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, the three kinds of information strengthen each other and reinforce what we all work to keep intact - the affection for life.”
“I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.”
“I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.”
“We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Youâ€™re just a young kid. What are you doinâ€™ here? You oughta be out in a convertible, whyâ€¦ bird-dogginâ€™ chicks and banginâ€™ beaver. What are ya doinâ€™ here, for Christâ€™s sake? Whatâ€™s funny about that? Jesus, I mean, you guys do nothinâ€™ but complain about how you canâ€™t stand it in this place here and then you havenâ€™t got the guts just to walk out!”
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”

Source : Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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