#din

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. ↗

— Joan Didion

#instant #life #life changes #ordinary

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #eyes #feel #gas #gas station

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#aim #always #course #how #i

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#art #artists #building #community #grew

Downloading songs is not good. ↗

— Obie Trice

#good #songs

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#corresponding #energy #muscular #spiritual #sunlight

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #capacity #evil #extraordinary #horrendous

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#existence #experience #facts #human #human world