I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Things that don’t last, last longer.
For someone with so much relationship advice, you seem awfully alone.
Find 3 sites that inspire you.
Steal the layout from one, color scheme from another, and typography from the third.
Combine those three, and you’ll realize you’ve created something original.
Nationalism didn’t exist in Europe until the Renaissance, when typography enabled every literate man to see his mother tongue analytically as a uniform entity. The printing press, by spreading mass-produced books and printed matter across Europe, turned the vernacular regional languages of the day into uniform closed systems of national languages — just another variant of what we call mass media — and gave birth to the entire concept of nationalism.
The contours of the resultant cartoonlike image are fleshed out within the imagination of the viewer, which necessitates great personal involvement and participation; the viewer, in fact, becomes the screen, whereas in film he becomes the camera.
Now man is beginning to wear his brain outside his skull and his nerves outside his skin; new technology breeds new man.
Speech is an utterance, or more precisely, an outering, of all our senses at once; the auditory field is simultaneous, the visual successive.
You tend not to outwardly express your feelings and spill your whole life story in the first hour of meeting someone. Or the first year. You have no interest or energy to prove yourself in a crowd of strangers.
“Strong opinions that are weakly held.”
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Any movie that cares deeply about itself—even a comedy—is interesting. It’s the movies that lack the courage of their convictions, the ones that keep asking themselves what the audience wants, that go astray.
[Boyhood is] random, inexplicable, moody, evolutionary, unrefined, sweeping, stunning, heartbreaking and hilarious, and so is life.
White privilege is the right of whites, and only whites, to be judged as individuals, to be treated as a unique self, possessed of all the rights and protections of citizenship. I am not a race, I am the unmarked subject. I am simply man, whereas you might be a black man, an asian woman, a disabled native man, a homosexual latina woman, and on and on the qualifiers of identification go.
We should be eternally dissatisfied with the status quo but humble about our ability to improve it.
If, as the communications philosopher Marshall McLuhan famously said, television brought the brutality of war into people’s living rooms, the Internet today is bringing violence against women out of it.
An editor’s job is to make sure the story in the book is the same length as the book.
Jokes are written, puns discovered.
Our kids will inherit the junk yards.
There’s always a moment when I think a project is going to be really amazing—that’s the moment I love, and it’s what I live for. The best time is when you see what’s possible. When it’s over, it’s not possible, it just is. The future is always more interesting.
How restful it is to be around someone who has all the time in the world. Someone who isn’t rushing this way and that, clamoring to get more done.
Impostor Syndrome is that voice inside you saying that not everything is as it seems, and it could all be lost in a moment. The people with the problem are the people who can’t hear that voice.