What did Colum McCann mean by: I’m only telling you on the truth,” he said. “If you can’t stand the truth, don’t ask for it. - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland Copy
+ How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Moments, Ordinary, Steps, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Impossible, Land, Memories, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Lying, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Grace, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Enough, Flight, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
+ There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Colum McCann, Goes On, Left, 0 - Colum McCann Writer · Ireland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
