"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."

-- Alexandre Dumas

#Memories Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Learners Quotes

“As you become more proficient, fewer people can offer you advice, although in truth, that's when you need it the most because the stakes just keep getting higher and higher.”
“And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.89, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
“As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.”
“All that I would like to be is human, having a share in a civilized, articulate and well-adjusted community where the mind is given its due but the body is not distrusted”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Autumn Journal”, p.39, Faber & Faber
“Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.”

Source : "Piccola antologia del pensiero breve" by Franco Fontanini, Liguori Editore, (p. 12), 2007.
“The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.”
“I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.”
“Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.”

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