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“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments, only later do they make themselves known, from their scars.”
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“don’t know what my life is about and don’t examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them.”
― Making Movies
― Making Movies
“Why do people stay together"? They stay together because it's expected, because it's what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. There is nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It's immoral.”
― Foe
― Foe
“You can hold beliefs and not always believe in them.”
― Foe
― Foe
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