“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.” WorldHumansMovingScienceNatureNaturalLinesHuman BeingsClearCuttingDrawsMachinesEdges Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.” WritingHumansStillsPlaySeemsRememberSufferingHouseHuman BeingsFictionFourMiddleMaterialsCreaturesEdgesCornersInstanceAttachmentTornSpidersHookedMaterial ThingsSpunShakespeare's Plays Author:Virginia Woolf
“Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.” HumansEndsHuman BeingsCuttingMovementRacismEdgesIdeologyInferiorsReactionariesSlopesDeclaringCutting EdgeAuschwitz Author:Ken Livingstone
“Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensHuman BeingsSpeciesEndureEdgesExistentialCliffsResilientHiroshimaHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Rick Yancey
“We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.” PeopleWantFeelsHumansKindI CanRealHuman BeingsMistakeBloodWeaknessHollywoodEdgesFleshMaking MistakesRoughFlawedFlesh And BloodWe All Make MistakesRough Edges Author:Lynn Shelton