“I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it - yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.” ThinkingGivingYearsLooksTodayFilmDiesThreeEnergyProgressColorConversationYesterdayWitnessCinemaDimensionsFortyDeclineReviveIncomparableThree Dimensions Author:Orson Welles
“certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.” PeopleAgeCertainDiesOld AgeInsaneVulnerabilityFortyFuneralOld PeopleConfirmation Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.” GivingHumansHeartSelfBodyYoungDiesWhiteEffortBoysFiveStupidTwentiesSoldierAthleteFiftyFortyHuman HeartSignalsPurpleImpressiveLaurelsDie YoungMenopauseGallantGallantryPurple Heart Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places