Cfay

“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a life.”
― Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“The movies have always shown how elemental passions boil beneath the thin veneer of civilization.”
― Camille Paglia, Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education

“Come then, pure hands, and bear the head
That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep,
And come, whatever loves to weep,
And hear the ritual of the dead.”
― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam

“In my photographic work I was always especially entranced, said Austerlitz, by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long.”
― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz