"Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description."

-- Alexander Kluge

#People Quotes #Details Quotes #Looks Quotes

“"Thinking" is not something we talk about.”
“We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.”

Source : Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.174, University of Chicago Press
“There are the moments it seems like, if we can take a week every once in a while and do this and make people happy, and it's a way for lots of people to get together and have fun, then it seems pretty silly to not get together and do it.”
“We read about secret lives that people have on the Internet, or alternate lives of a serial killer where the whole family didn't know that their dad or their brother or their child was that. There are all the things in our heart that no one really knows, and I thought that that was interesting territory to explore.”
“When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?”
“Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.”
“We Jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. While the naive Americans wait for Khrushchev to bury them, we have taught them to submit to our every demand.”
“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”

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