#ali

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. ↗

— Joan Didion

#believe #did #episcopalian #i #i was raised

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#alive #artists #duty #era #hand

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#cause #connection #deep #dock #feel

The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#amazing #any #auto #because #before

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#cigarettes #dark #every #films #i

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#assumptions #become #days #early #edit

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#alive #cry #dead #gone #i

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#avoided #dark #imagination #meet #memory