“i was a woman with a plan. i knew the only thing, that could’ve really stopped me, in my opinion, was to fall in love.
i went in, at lunch, to put my books in the locker and i got to the doorway and … i saw john cassavetes, and i thought : oh, oh damn! no, no, no. no!
that’s just exactly what i don’t want.”
-gena rowlands on meeting her husband, john cassavetes
and the most important happens when you least expect it. for h. by sv
“there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.” – quote by gerhard richter by dd
“the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
-william shakespeare, julius caesar, act i scene ii
“the greatness of the human being consists in this: that it is capable of the universe.”
– thomas aquinas
“laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.”
—immanuel kant, 1790
“i don’t know. poets are always taking the weather so personally. they’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
-j.d. salinger, teddy
“i used to advertise my loyalty and i don’t believe there is a single person i loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”
-albert camus, “the fall”
“new york had a way of doing that. every now and then the city shook its soul out. it assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrap your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.”
-colum mccann, let the great world spin
“nevermore”
-the raven
“what interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.”
– richard serra
“…a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it….”
–thomas pynchon, gravity’s rainbow
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