"The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance."

-- Henry James

#Illustration Quotes #Media Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.”
“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

Source : Dara Horn (2006). “The World to Come: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company
“There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominsummer Madness”, p.13, Macmillan
“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none”
“My mouth was always my weapon. I've become quieter now. It's possible to put things very clearly, concisely and sharply, even when you do it quietly.”
“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”
“I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon”
“I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.”

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