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Philip Sington has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.
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I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not…
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I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea.
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To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness.
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One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
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One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable…
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I wanted her body and soul, but body first.
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Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever…
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The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It…
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And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became…
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're…
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We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.
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The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second
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Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.
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Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level…
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I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…
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At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but…
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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system…
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.
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It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if…
— Steve Jobs
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