#real

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#in-depth #into #misfortune #only #overview

Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world. ↗

— Pierre Janet

#imagination #literature #mind #surrealism #writing

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#around #aware #even #first #first time

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. ↗

— John Deacon

#because #collections #four #group #just

I've been obsessed with seeing life through music. My records, my relationship with records, my relationship with rock stars, everything that surrounds it, has been really one of the only ways that I ever started to understand the world. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#ever #everything #i #life #music

But Basquiat is the first thing I've done that I'm really proud of. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#first #first thing #i #proud #really

We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort. ↗

— John Dean

#bush #comfort #encouraged #experience #first

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#becomes #door #films #how #just

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country. ↗

— Mary Decker

#complain #country #family #gorgeous #great

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes. ↗

— Jack Dee

#between #comedian #gets #great #his