"a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive."

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Source : Arlene Croce (2003). “Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker: An Arlene Croce Reader”, p.129, Macmillan

Arlene Croce

#Excellence Quotes #Genius Quotes #Alive Quotes

“When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is pleasant to recall past troubles.”
“My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.”
“Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?”
“History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books
“It was weird [touring with them]. It felt more like we were playing for Phoenix. They asked us because they're fans of what we do.”
“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”
“Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.”

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