"It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget."

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Joshua Foer

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Essence Quotes

“Nothing which consists of corporeal matter is absolutely light, but that is comparatively lighter which is rarer, either by its own nature, or by accidental heat. And it is not to be thought that light bodies are escaping to the surface of the universe while they are carried upwards, or that they are not attracted by the earth. They are attracted, but in a less degree, and so are driven outwards by the heavy bodies; which being done, they stop, and are kept by the earth in their own place.”
“Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.”
“Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.”

Source : "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.
“Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.”

Source : "Five Questions For Upstream Color Director Shane Carruth". Interview with Ethan Alter, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. April 1, 2013.
“I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.”
“What a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as Iâ€™m concerned, if you make $2 million a week and you donâ€™t have a hooker in your hotel room, youâ€™re creepy and I donâ€™t trust you. And I donâ€™t do drugs at all, so for me it would just be more prostitutes. Thatâ€™s how they would find me. I would be dead on the floor, flattened by a pile of prostitutes. Iâ€™d look like a cat in a hoardersâ€™ house.”
“I went to film school and studied Alfred Hitchcock. I knew of Alma Reville existence, but had no idea really who she was or how influential she was on him. She stayed in the shadows. Go online, and there are hardly any images or film of her. She really stayed out of the limelight on purpose. She didn't want it, and I think that's one of the reasons that she's really lost in the shadows of Hitchcock's history to a degree.”
“Problems only exist in the human mind.”

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