“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.”
― High Fidelity
― 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.”
― The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
― The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
“I talk with the authority of failure.”
― The Crack-Up
― 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?”
― The Cocktail Party
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?”
― The Cocktail Party
“The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
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