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“It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“Nel tennis il vero avversario, la frontiera che include, è il giocatore stesso. C'è sempre e solo l'io là fuori, sul campo, da incontrare, combattere, costringere a venire a patti. Il ragazzo dall'altro lato della rete: lui non è il nemico; è più il partner nella danza. Lui è il pretesto o l'occasione per incontrare l'io. E tu sei la sua occasione. Le infinite radici della bellezza del tennis sono autocompetitive. Si compete con i propri limiti per trascendere l'io in immaginazione ed esecuzione. Scompari dentro al gioco: fai breccia nei tuoi limiti; trascendi; migliora; vinci. [...] Si cerca di sconfiggere e trascendere quell'io limitato i cui limiti stessi rendono il gioco possibile. È tragico e triste e caotico e delizioso. E tutta la vita è così, come cittadini dello Stato umano: i limiti che ci animano sono dentro di noi, devono essere uccisi e compianti, all'infinito. (Infinite Jest, p. 116)”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“That is the thing about films. They don't change. You change. The immutability of the film (or a book or a painting or a piece of music) is something to measure yourself against. That is one of the things a great work of art does. It stays there waiting for you to come back to it, and it shows you who you are now, each time a little different.”
― Innocents and Others
― Innocents and Others
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