Glitterpants

“There is no realism in American films. No realism, but something much better, great truth.”
― Jean Renoir, Renoir on Renoir: Interviews, Essays, and Remarks

“To oppose something is to maintain it.
They say here "all roads lead to Mishnory." To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“I can't get to know you" means "I shall never know what you really think of me." I cannot decipher you because I do not know how you decipher me.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“What I hide by my language, my body utters.”
― Roland Barthes