"We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'"

-- Albert Camus

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Life And Death Quotes

“There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.”
“My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right away that I was an actor, even from 4 years old. I've never waited a table. I taught some - I'll teach classes in improv or Shakespeare, but there's some motor in me that needs to do that.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.
“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1858). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair”, p.263
“The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”
“I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.”
“The more I make the more I can give away.”
“Iâ€™m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: Iâ€™m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big. Iâ€™m currently wearing a pair that could have been used as a fire blanket to put out the Great Fire of London at any point during the first 48 hours or so. They extend from the top of my thigh to my belly button, and effectively double up as a second property that I can escape to at weekends. If I were going to run for parliament, it would be solely on a platform of â€˜Get Women In Massive Grundieâ€™sâ€™.”
“Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.”

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