“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 96 of 303
“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”
“Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”
“Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.”
“I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.”
“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”
“The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.”
“We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.”
“Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.”
“Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.”
“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”
“You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.”
“Your very silence shows you agree.”
“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.”
“You have to play the logic of a character.”
“People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.”
“Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.”
“In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.”
“There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.”
“I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.”