241 Quotes

“Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like. ”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“They got stoneder and stoneder and quit talking.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

“I know what it means. It means I can't run. The Inquisition and the Castilians - they're not just out there, they're in my head. Your head, too. They're inside the only thing that was ever really ours. Even our stories are not our stories. We tried to tell our own, Fa, and all we did was end up telling theirs.”
― G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King