#live

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#alive #art #learning #living #me

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film. ↗

— Alan Price

#asterisks #before #demo #felt #film

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived. ↗

— Charley Pride

#best #chet #ever #guitar #guitar player

Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone? ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#alone #bed #chaste #god #goddess

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#apart #body #chained #compelled #creature

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#childhood #days #favorite #fully #lived

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his