"Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after the whole of time has been distributed, divided, and allotted; events that have been left in the cold, unregistered, hanging in the air, homeless, and errant?"

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Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

Bruno Schulz

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“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
“I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature”
“When you make a film, you sign a contract with somebody, and it's not only legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one.”
“It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.”
“I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.”
“I regard belief as a form of brain damage.”
“Abolishing slavery leads to slaves without masters”
“A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la CitÃ©.”

Source : Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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