living

 

 

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Ingmar Bergman

photography

 

 

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

reason

 

 

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

Zadie Smith

truth

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

igornance

 

 

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois

beware

 

 

 

Beware the peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell

purpose

 

 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existences is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

mercy

 

 

One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is the mercy of someone else's childhood.

Hanif Kureishi

in charge

 

 

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life.

Anais Nin

drifts

 

 

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

plunder

 

 

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frederic Bastiat

nobody

 

 

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Alice Walker

life

 

 

Life is a chance. Love is infinity. Grace is reality.

Anonymous

flame

 

 

 

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Lao Tzu

exposure

 

 

A long exposure time gives the soul time to appear. And leaves time for chance to intervene.

Paolo Roversi

terror

 

 

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Wole Soyinka

kindness

 

 

 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear & the blind can see.

Mark Twain

job

 

 

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

Albert Camus

know

 

 

 

Those who don't know the truth are fools, but those who know the truth and call it a lie are criminals.

Bertolt Brecht

beware

 

 

Beware of peddlers of nostalgia.

Edward T. O'Donnell