quotes about Completeness

“As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the birch on the wall as if it were a woman's scarf.”

“There is a report that says that kids who watch violent TV programs tend to be more violent when they grow up. But did the TV cause the violence, or do violent children preferentially enjoy watching violent programs?”

“We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. Commenting about Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.”

“Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.”

“Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.”

Source : "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss, 2005.

“I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.”

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.”

“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”

Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan