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“I have mentioned the fact, fifty times at least, to everybody here!” said Mrs. Markleham. (“Then hold your tongue, for the Lord’s sake, and don’t mention it any more!” muttered my aunt.)
“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
“The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.”
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
― The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
“Your life doesn’t happen in any kind of order. Events don’t have cause and effect relationships the way you wish they did. It’s all a series of fragments and repetitions and pattern formations. Language and water have this in common.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,
of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and
therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”
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of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and
therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”
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“However, narrating what you remember, telling it to someone, does something else. The more a person recalls a memory, the more they change it. Each time they put it into language, it shifts. The more you describe a memory, the more likely it is that you are making a story that fits your life, resolves the past, creates a fiction you can live with. It’s what writers do. Once you open your mouth, you are moving away from the truth of things. According to neuroscience. The safest memories are locked in the brains of people who can’t remember. Their memories remain the closest replica of actual events. Underwater. Forever.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
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