Brodolomi

“I saw plenty of differences in degree, but not in kind. I felt the same admiration for Kelly and Donen's Singin' in the Rain as for Carl Dreyer's Ordet.

I still find any hierarchy of kinds of movies both ridiculous and despicable.”
― François Truffaut, The Films in My Life

“Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.”
― H. Richard Niebuhr, Christ and Culture

“Sećam se da sam u jednom od stotine romana koje sam to leto pročitao našao jednog preterano strasnog junaka s gustim obrvama i toliko sam zaželeo da ličim na njega po spoljašnjosti (moralno sam se osećao sasvim isti on), da sam posmatrajući svoje obrve pred ogledalom došao na misao da ih malo podšišam, da bi mi porasle gušće.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary