“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Everything was beautiful. Not that there was anyone to share it with, anyone to tell. Just the beauty.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
“Behind every statistic there is an individual, there is a story.”
― The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
― The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm
“I like it when it’s foggy. When you can’t see into the distance. When there’s no horizon. It gives me a feeling of having time. That it’s all right not to see, not to be aware of what’s in my path.”
― The Pachinko Parlour
― The Pachinko Parlour
“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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