#ma

It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls-as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself. ↗

— Stephen King

#experience

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

#else #i #like #made #me

Cole envisioned the next few weeks passing as a sort of painless montage: there'd be music, and different moments of the townspeople hard at work building a defensive wall around the perimeter of the town, and digging holes to serve as traps, and training with the few weapons they had. There'd be a wiping of perspiration and drinks raised to one another and the exchange of friendly smiles between comrades, and perhaps deeper, more meaningful glances between him and MaryAnn. But by midmorning of the first day, Cole had come to the unavoidable conclusion that the remainder of the experience would in fact drag on in exceedingly real time, with lots of heaving and hoing and digging and hauling under the hot sun, full of the kind of intense straining that raised the danger of a really spectacular hernia. And, judging from the few tense conversations he'd had so far, he foresaw a series of increasingly strident arguments with Nora regarding matters strategic. Plus, of course, at the end of all this effort they'd all probably be dead. ↗

— Michael Rubens

#defensive-fortifications #montage #real-time #seven-samurai-homage #strategy

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

#mistakes #really #trying #you

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#being #chair #current #does #everything

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Eastman

#be true #friend #man #mark #trials

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#also #any #ever #format #got

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ↗

— Howard Hawks

#director #function #i #make #move

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention. ↗

— John Hawley

#be thankful #considering #enjoy #enough #exercise

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#caught #chase #comes #dreaming #find