"I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life."

-- Lydia Davis

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Pace Quotes

“Europe is not becoming more unified - well, yes, on paper - but not as long as the criteria for so many things (import regulations, border control, visa politics...etc.) are still made in an unjust, unreasonable way.”
“The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach”
“For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“Racial problems can't be easily reconciled with a pat account about racism and discrimination that lets us sort of relax into saying when we finally get this right, when we get rid of racism, when we reach the post-racial society, everything is going to be okay. Well, no, because along the way here, as we've not yet been in this racial nirvana, facts on the ground have been created.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...”
“If you love language, it will love you back.”
“Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.”

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