"Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough."

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Source : Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

Walter Kirn

#World Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Heartbeat Quotes

“What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.”
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
“If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.”

Source : "Reading and Criticism". Book by Raymond Williams, 1950.
“Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.”

Source : "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Romola Garai, Nicci Gerrard, Anna Smith, Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”
“Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.”
“As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling about, the servant chopping firewood and, of course, and number of crows in various postures on the rooftops of the buildings opposite.”

Source : R. K. Laxman (1998). “The tunnel of time: an autobiography”, Viking Pr
“Asia's culture has planted its roots all over the world, and also has roots in my personal culture.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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