"For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse."

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Source : Alexander Schmemann (1973). “For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy”, p.17, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

Alexander Schmemann

#Thinking Quotes #Dying Quotes #World Quotes

“Should Christians govern and are Christians the only ones who are truly qualified to govern, and the answer is, of course, Yes.”
“Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.”
“I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.”

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“Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.”
“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House
“Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.”
“I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me my own serious-mindedness and how ridiculous it all is. It's always easier to see somebody else in that position than yourself, and you laugh. It's like the classic slipping on the banana peel, or someone getting hit by a pie in the face. Why do those things make us laugh? Is it from relief, like: Thank God it wasn't me? Or is it something else: I'm being very serious now. I'm pontificating earnestly and solemnly about-POW! PIE IN THE FACE! The bust-up of certainty.”
“When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.”

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