David Lynch

A life in quotes: David Lynch

The visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78 visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78

Adrian Horton

Friday 17 January 2025

avid Lynch, the enigmatic film-maker who revolutionized American cinema and television through his dark, surrealist vision, has died at the age of 78, less than a year after the lifelong smoker publicly revealed his struggles with emphysema.

 

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A life in quotes: Alice Munro

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Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women

Adrian Horton

Tue 14 May 2024 19.16 BST

Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel laureate considered one of the greatest short story writers in the English language, has died at the age of 92 at her care home in Ontario, after suffering dementia for more than a decade. Born and raised in south-western Ontario, the “Canadian Chekhov” captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women – subjects long out of focus for the mainstream, finally achieving recognition later in life.

Stephen King / Lord of the flies

 

The book that made me want to be a writer 

Lord of the Flies: it was about kids, and I was a kid. The plot was simple and the descent into savagery was believable. I read it at the age of 12 – it was only later that I grasped the symbolism of the severed pig’s head and the sexual subtext. I felt that if I could do something like that, I’d be happy. And guess what? I was right.

Stephen King

The Guardian, 11  October 2024

Quotes / My Life

 

MY LIFE

“My life before was full of happiness. I would give anything — money, property, job — to have my family safe and alive. I lost my very dearest ones, and nothing can ever bring them back again.”
— Wael Ayesh, 50, who before the war ran a Gaza City beach cafe. His wife and three of his sons, aged 2 to 14, were killed in a bombing in January, after which, their bodies lay under rubble for 35 days

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Quotes / Lord Byron / Hatred

 

Lord Byron by George Henry Harlow

Lord Byron

«Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest at leisure»

Quotes by Alain Delon

 

Alain Delon

QUOTES

by Alain Delon

• I like to be loved like I love myself.
• I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin Quotes

1. “Everybody’s journey is individual. If  you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”
2. “People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.”
3. “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
4. “The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, [yet] at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
5. “When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”

INCASEYOUREINTERESTED

Zona Gale / Seven Quotes

SEVEN  QUOTES

by Zona Gale

“When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.”

— Zona Gale

“The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.”

— Zona Gale

“Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative. It is creative.”

— Zona Gale

“I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.”

— Zona Gale

“I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”

— Zona Gale

“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

— Zona Gale

“Moments of mystery are rare enough, in all conscience; and when they do arrive all the world misses them by trying to understand them. Which is manifestly ungrateful and stupid.”

— Zona Gale

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

 

Ismail Kadare

QUOTES by Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

***

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

***

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

***

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

***

Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.

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Ismaíl Kadaré / “De niño me creía Shakespeare”
Ismaíl Kadaré / En un café de París
Ismaíl Kadaré bajo el régimen de Enver Hoxha / Las otras formas de (no) ser disidente
Ismail Kadaré / "La literatura no tiene nada que ver con la verdad"
Ismaíl Kadaré / No es papel de la literatura explicar la política
Muere Ismaíl Kadaré, escritor albanés clave del siglo XX, a los 88 años
‘Tres minutos’, de Ismaíl Kadaré: el dictador que llamaba a los poetas
«Tres minutos», de Ismaíl Kadaré / Reseña
Ismail Kadaré / El palacio de los sueños tiene un aire a El Castillo, de Kafka
Ismaíl Kadaré / Dante y Kafka se citan en Tirana
Ismail Kadaré / El Palacio de los Sueños / Reseña
Stalin-Pastenak / La llamada
Ismaíl Kadaré, hacer literatura normal en tiempos anormales


DRAGON
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Ismail Kadare, giant of Albanian literature, dies aged 88
Quotes by Ismail Kadare

RIMBAUD
Ismail Kadaré / Une plume contre des bunkers
Ismaïl Kadaré / Le café Rostand, cœur de village
Ismaïl Kadaré / Pasternak et Staline au téléphone
Ismaïl Kadaré / L'ecrivain face au monstre

Sundays by Bukowski

 

Bukowski by Zach Mendoza

QUOTES

by Charles Bukowski

Sunday kill more kill more people than bombs.

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Find what you love and let it kill you.

***

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

***

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

***

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

***

Without literature, life is hell.

***

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

***

I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.

***

Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

***

Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

***

Love breaks my bones and I laugh.

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Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.

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I wanted the whole world or nothing.

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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.