Anna

“The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“this sense: the act of thinking, looking, and talking about what you see changes what you know and see. After this labor, now you can, finally, see.”
― Alva Noë, The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

“I talk with the authority of failure.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“Everyone’s alone—or so it seems to me.
They make noises, and think they are talking to each other;
They make faces, and think they understand each other,
And I’m sure they don’t. Is that delusion?
Can we only love
Something created in our own imaginations?”
― T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party