“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”
― An Object of Beauty
― An Object of Beauty
“For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.”
― Shopgirl
― Shopgirl
“I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”
― An Object of Beauty
― An Object of Beauty
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