December 2010
1 post
“He did not recognize the person he saw there as himself. He thought that he had...”
– Paul Auster, City of Glass (The New York Trilogy)
November 2010
4 posts
“Most people don’t pay attention to such things. They think of words as...”
– Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
“L’art de l’écrivain consiste surtout à nous faire oublier...”
– Henri Bergson
“My wanting to take a photograph appears as fast as a bolt and without warning...”
– Dmitri Kasterine
“He will stop hoping for anything and live only for now, this moment, this...”
– Paul Auster, Sunset Park
October 2010
14 posts
“That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
– Aldous Huxley
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, One hundred years of solitude
“The truth is in each character, so the truth is not about a fact but about how...”
– Virginia Woolf
“- Pero no hay otra alternativa a la cultura -le dije- que la barbarie.
-...”
– Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus
“When I’m photographing people, I don’t like to give any direction. I...”
– Jim Marshall
“I’ve found that photography has little to do with the things you see and...”
– Elliot Erwitt
“Je fus placé à mi-distance de la misère et du soleil.”
– Albert Camus
“La literatura”, terminó Mario Vargas Llosa, “es mi manera de vivir,...”
– Mario Vargas Llosa en el diario El País
“Life had seemed so simple that morning when I had wakened and found the false...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left and emptiness when it stopped....”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast.
“I thought of Miss Stein and Sherwood Anderson and egotism and mental laziness...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
September 2010
13 posts
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“‘What matters is to look. But people don’t look. Most of them don’t look. They...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
“Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved,...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Am I going crazy?
I’m afraid so, You’re entirely bonkers, totally mad. But I’ll...”
– Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
““`Why, about you!’ Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. `And...”
– Lewis Carrol, Through the Looking-glass
“Photographs do not seem to be statements about the world so mush as pieces of...”
– Susan Sontag
“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
– Paul Auster
“Si pudiera contarlo con palabras no me sería necesario cargar con una cámara.”
– Lewis Hine
“it’s a song about love, not a love song”
– Bono (talking about ONE)
“As soon as you don’t choose, everything remains possible.”
– Mr. Nobody
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three...”
– John Keats
“Buñuel, cuando una vez se le preguntó por qué hacía películas, respondió que era...”
– Susan Sontag
“You’re too good for this world, and because of that the world will...”
– Paul Auster, Invisible
August 2010
2 posts
“We shall not cease from exploration and at the end of our exploring will be to...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Four Quartets
“True human goodness can manifest itself, in all its purity and liberty, only in...”
– Milan Kundera
July 2010
29 posts
“The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word...”
– Paul Auster, The Invention of solitude
“when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an...”
– Paul Auster, The Brooklyn follies
“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love,Love will make us.”
– Julio Cortázar
“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
– Julio Cortázar, Rayuela
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf
“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and...”
– Susan Sontag
“Happiness, only real when shared.”
– Into the wild
“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or...”
– Susan Sontag
“It’s absolutely essential that a writer know himself, for until he knows his...”
– Harper Lee
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in...”
– Susan Sontag
“felices los que eligen, los que aceptan ser elegidos.”
– Julio Cortázar
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be...”
– William Faulkner
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow...”
– Herman Melville
“Imagination in these works is equated with empathy; we can’t experience...”
– Azar Nafisi, Reading “lolita” in Tehran.
“In order to die, you must first have lived”
– Henry David Thoreau