The Age of Dreaming Quotes

“Live where you are, not only where you think you should be. Otherwise, you will end up living nowhere.” I”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming: A Novel

“For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“One of the luxuries of being obscure is that one no longer has a status to maintain.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“I didn't tell him the rest of what I knew -- that once you gave up even a little of yourself, it wasn't long before you gave up everything. But he'd learn that for himself soon enough.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“We performed in front of the camera with unabashed joy, as if we lived only for that moment. And in fact we had, for our work did not stand the test of time. Our images -- quite literally -- crumbled.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“Watching movies today is a passive experience, and there is little demand on the viewer's imagination.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

“It is popular now to say that Hollywood is a state of mind more than an actual place, since the Boulevard itself has become as tasteless and as subject to bad elements as that other den of American excess, Times Square”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming