#jonathan

Brod’s life was a slow realization that the world was not for her, and that for whatever reason, she would never be happy and honest at the same time. She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release. Table, ivory elephant charm, rainbow, onion, hairdo, mollusk, Shabbos, violence, cuticle, melodrama, ditch, honey, doily… None of it moved her. She addressed her world honestly, searching for something deserving of the volumes of love she knew she had within her, but to each she would have to say, I don’t love you. Bark-brown fence post: I don’t love you. Poem too long: I don’t love you. Physics, the idea of you, the laws of you: I don’t love you. Nothing felt like anything more than what it actually was. Everything was just a thing, mired completely in its thingness. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #life

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#book #brighton #chasing #create #decided

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#extremely #foer #incredibly #jonathan #living

When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#hope #hopelessness #inspirational #jonathan-anthony-burkett #life

Poor gentleman," said Mr Segundus. "Perhaps it is the age. It is not an age for magic or scholarship, is it sir? Tradesmen prosper, sailors, politicians, but not magicians. Our time is past. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#age

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#anderbo-com #art #beauty #behavior #books

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#bartimaeus-trilogy #jonathan-stroud #life

Apologies aren't something you want to get in the habit of practicing in the mirror ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#music

After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#begging #craig #get #got #i

I appeared on a show with Jonathan Harris on it-the Bill Dana show-even before Lost In Space. Someone gave me a tape of it in the past year, but in all these years we hadn't remembered. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#before #bill #gave #hadn #harris