Edouard Glissant quotes

Edouard Glissant quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.”
-- Edouard Glissant

Source : Édouard Glissant (1989). “Caribbean discourse: selected essays”, Caraf Books

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“Thereâ€™s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.”
“The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.”
“There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.”
“Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.”
“Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.”
“I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.”
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“Never treat somebodyâ€™s cleverness as his lifeâ€™s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.”
“I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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