“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.”
― War of the Foxes
― War of the Foxes
“Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.”
― Memories of the Future
― Memories of the Future
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