Tuesday, June 10, 2003
�I want to preserve the level of quality. Like Atlas holding the earth on his shoulders. He could, after all, have thrown it off when he got tired. But he didn�t; for some reason he went on holding it up.�
- Andrey Tarkovsky (1932 � 1986), Russian film-maker: journal entry, June 2, 1979, published in �Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970 � 1986�, 1989, translated 1994.
�Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �The Rebel�, 1951, translated 1953.
�You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they�re simply unbearable.�
- Marguerite Duras (1914 � 1996), French author and film-maker: �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
�Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.�
- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet and critic: �A Question of Metamorphosis�, interview first published in �Malahat Review�, No. 41, 1977, reprinted in �Conversations� (ed. Earl G. Ingersoll), 1990.
- Andrey Tarkovsky (1932 � 1986), Russian film-maker: journal entry, June 2, 1979, published in �Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970 � 1986�, 1989, translated 1994.
�Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.�
- Albert Camus (1913 � 1960), French-Algerian philosopher and author: �The Rebel�, 1951, translated 1953.
�You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they�re simply unbearable.�
- Marguerite Duras (1914 � 1996), French author and film-maker: �Practicalities�, 1987, translated 1990.
�Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.�
- Margaret Atwood (b. 1939), Canadian novelist, poet and critic: �A Question of Metamorphosis�, interview first published in �Malahat Review�, No. 41, 1977, reprinted in �Conversations� (ed. Earl G. Ingersoll), 1990.
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