“Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.” ThinkingWritingActionConflictHappeningsPressureSpeedReactionsContactTensionThoughtfulAction And Reaction Book:The Mulberry Tree Source: The Mulberry Tree
“Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.” CharacterActorsKnowingAnxietyHappeningsScriptsTensionNot Knowing Author:Matthew Davis
“The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of details that consists in one person going on a walk. And as a consequence, there is a necessary tension between the determinacy and indeterminacy, the definite and the indefinite, of possibility.” PersonsPlayWalksImaginePossibilityHappeningsConsequenceDetailsTheatreTensionDefiniteVague Author:Sergio Chejfec
“James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant social critic, he foreshadowed the destructive trends happening now in the whole Western world and beyond, while always maintaining a sense of humanistic hope and dignity. He explored palpable, yet unspoken, intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies and the inevitable, if unnameable, tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.” IfsWorldWholeSocialHalfClassCenturyIdentityHappeningsDignityCriticsWesternBrilliantInevitableUncertaintyTensionAssumptionDistinctionDestructiveTrendsYearningMaintainingTwentieth CenturyUnspokenWestern WorldAmerican WriterHumanisticIntricacyPersonal IdentityWestern SocietyClass Distinction Author:Raoul Peck
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.” PeopleWarFeelingsRememberCertainLostNiceHappeningsWineDinnerTensionIgnoredDisgustedNice PeopleSun Also Rises Book:The Sun Also Rises Source: The Sun Also Rises