"Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long."

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Source : Walker Evans (2004). “Many are Called”, p.202, Yale University Press

Walker Evans

#Knowing Quotes #Long Quotes #Staring Quotes

“For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.”
“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
“Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”
“Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.”
“Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).”

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