Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Quotes By Walter Benjamin
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in...
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has...
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a...
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to...
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth...
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form the...
Quotes About Experience
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
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I feel responsible that everyone has a really wonderful experience and to do...
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't...
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Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their...
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I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It's funny because when we found out we...
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At our best it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year so there...
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I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an...
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and...
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Well you know the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over...
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The most important training though is to experience life as a writer...