Passage Of Time

He spent six hours

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Please allow me to

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think … Read more

I admire the artists

I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves… In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living. Gabriel Orozco

Natural disasters in Bolivia

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It’s brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. Evo Morales

In a way all

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let the past disappear and be forgotten, and to refuse to let the present become the past – to try to keep living another day, to try to talk your way into … Read more

Bread, soup – these

Bread, soup – these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. Elie Wiesel

Tomorrow is a mystery.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I\’ve learned

I think I’ve learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren’t they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time… Whether it’s a movie, a novel, … Read more

The gravest error a

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity’s dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, … Read more