#era

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#courteous #generous #large #liberal #man

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#i #liberal #proudly #state

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#cares #character #epoch #general #general character

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#heart #human #human heart #less #literature

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#contrary #exact #generally #often #truth

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buster #cameo #charlie #cos #course

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience

I am not a specialist but a general practitioner in the world of the arts. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#arts #general #i #i am #practitioner

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

#generals #last #like #politicians #tendency