“What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
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“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
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Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.”
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“Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.”
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955
― The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955
“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”
― The Spiritualist
― The Spiritualist
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