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“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“У хорошего человека отношения с женщинами всегда складываются трудно. А я человек хороший. Заявлено без тени смущения, потому что гордиться тут нечем. От хорошего человека ждут соответствующего поведения. К нему предъявляют высокие требования. Он тащит на себе ежедневный мучительный груз благородства, ума, прилежания, совести, юмора.”
― The Compromise
― The Compromise
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― The White Album
― The White Album
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“I met this kid from Miles City, Montana, who read the Stars and Stripes every day, checking the casualty lists to see if by some chance anybody form his home town had been killed. He didn’t even know if there was anyone else from Miles City in Vietnam, but he checked anyway because he knew for sure that if there was someone else and they got killed, he would be all right. “I mean, can you just see *two* guys from a raggedy-ass town like Miles City getting killed in Vietnam?”
― Dispatches
― Dispatches
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