Oscar Meyer

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
― George Orwell

“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary … More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books.
—Prologue to The Garden of Forking Paths, 10 November 1941”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Like a white stone at the bottom of the well,
One memory lies in me.
I cannot and I do not want to struggle,
It is both joy and suffering.

I think that anyone who looks into my
Eyes will all at once see him.
More sad and pensive he'll become
That heard the story of this suffering.

I know that the gods had turned
People to objects, without killing mind,
That divine sadness lived eternally.
You're turned into my memory, I find.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Do all lovers feel like they're inventing something?”
― Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire