"Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines."

-- Friedrich Kittler

#Reading Quotes #Lines Quotes #Letters Quotes

“Would ask me, what do you want to be when you're older? and I'd be like, a singer, and they'd be like, what do you really want to be? and I'd be like, oh, I really want to be a singer.”
“Men are all alike - except the one you've met who's different.”
“Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.”

Source : Roundtable interview, www.ign.com. July 30, 2004.
“I am a very impatient director.”
“The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.”
“Few of us get anything without working for it.”
“Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.”
“Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.”

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