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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we… — C.S. Lewis
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and… — Francesca Lia Block
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved… — Sherman Alexie
Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes… — Rudolfo Anaya
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of… — Tennessee Williams
I have been right, Basil, havenâ€™t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeareâ€™s plays? Lips that Shakespeare… — Oscar Wilde
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she… — Garth Stein
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility… — Tom Stoppard
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. — Garth Nix
I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or… — Charles de Lint
I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in… — Jodi Picoult
A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes… — Michel Foucault
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass… — Julia Glass
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play... — Meher Baba
Perhaps it would have been easier if I said that not being able to find something is like suddenly not remembering the words to your… — Cecelia Ahern
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. — Stanislav Grof
For Christ plays in ten thousand places,/ Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his/ To the Father through the features of menâ€™s faces. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky — Jandy Nelson

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