"Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad."

-- Shirley Jackson

#House Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #Holiness Quotes

“The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.”
“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”
“Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.”

Source : "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.
“A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.”
“A small profit is better than a big loss.”

Source : Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.139, Canongate Books
“Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.”
“If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.”
“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.”

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