#dialog

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#dialogue #introspective #sad #death

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#dialogue #life #parents #self #self-identity

Don’t be fooled by clever hands, sir” the Sunlight Man said. He’d be lying with the back of his head on his hands, as he always lay. “Entertainment’s all very well, but the world is serious. It’s exceedingly amusing, when you think about it: nothing in life is as startling or shocking or mysterious as a good magician’s trick. That’s what makes stagecraft deadly. Listen closely, friend. You see great marvels performed on the stage - the lady sawed in half, the fat man supported by empty air, the Hindu vanishing with the folding of a cloth - and the subtlest of poisons drifts into your brain: you think the earth dead because the sky is full of spirits, you think the hall drab because the stage is adazzle with dimestore gilt. So King Lear rages, and the audience grows meek, and tomorrow, in the gray of old groceries, the housewife will weep for Cordelia and despair for herself. They weren’t fools, those old sages who called all art the Devil’s work. It eats the soul. ↗

— John Gardner

#the-sunlight-dialogues #art

The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52) ↗

— David R. Smock

#religion #religious-differences #spirituality #faith

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#also #ask #attempting #cosmopolitan #dialogue

Dialogue is a necessary evil. ↗

— Fred Zinnemann

#evil #necessary #necessary evil

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#film #happening #i #i do #listen

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#dialogue #good #i #like #lot

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#between #dialogue #everything #god #groove

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#dialog #difficult #flow #i #know