Euan Franklin

“these verses have become a thing and one can take them off the page and throw them at a window, and the window would break. That's what words can do!”
― Daniil Kharms, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings

“It's funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on a screen.”
― Anthony Burgess

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim 'I do enjoy myself' or 'I am horrified' we are insincere. 'As far as I feel anything, it is enjoyment, horror' - it's no more than that really, and a perfectly adjusted organism would be silent.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“For while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also the case that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting