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#tempo

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A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.


Kenneth More


#am #contemporaries #film #genevieve #i

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.


Pope John Paul II


#field #gospel #illusion #interest #leaders

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.


Chaim Potok


#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots.


Sally Jo Martine


#contemporary-fairytale #fiber-art #grief #illustrated-fable #inspiration

Did the Ancient Greeks ever write anything funny—like slapstick? I mean, I think I speak for everyone when I say that there’s nothing wrong with a little bit of well-written physical comedy.


Elle Lothlorien


#funny

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.


Leopold Von Ranke


#contemporary #contemporary world #does #future #high

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.


Little Richard


#blues #call #change #down #music

The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.


Georg Simmel


#antagonistic #circle #circles #closed #contemporary

Does Playboy still run fiction?” “I have absolutely no idea, Melinda,” he said, grinning.


Robyn Carr


#funny #humour #romance #funny

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.


Ludwig Wittgenstein


#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity






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