“Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.”
― Notes on the Cinematographer
― Notes on the Cinematographer
“All good work requires self-revelation.”
― Making Movies
― Making Movies
“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”
― Iliad
― Iliad
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”
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Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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