Observed People Quote by Roberto Bolaño

“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.”

— Niall Ferguson

“Professors and classmates seemed genuinely interested in what seemed to me a superficially boring story: I”

— J.D. Vance

“This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly…

— Abraham Verghese

“But so many people... have only got their minds tacked on to their physical corpses.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.”

— Virginia Woolf

“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the…

— David Sedaris

“I’m not trying to evoke emotions in the reader. My job is to bring about an understanding through pictures.”

— Michael Siegel

“Look at the people in the very old photographs! They are gone forever but they still can give us messages with their eyes, they…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The dead were just the dead, neither awful nor remarkable. History separated out these individuals and preserved their names where others were obilterated for…

— Rosie Thomas

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“Just as people talk about things of no real interest to them, they also take pictures of things that have no real interest to…

— Bruce Barnbaum

“I managed to persevere partly because not everyone responded with that stare; there was enthusiasm as well. And I was struck that no one…

— Cheryl Mendelson