“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”

— Shannon Hale

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American fantasy novelist 1974

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Of course, people are more affected by actors or acting. But as a filmmaker, I need some logic. And this was my logic in making these two films, and how I connected these stories and these films together. People say my films don’t have any plot or storyline, but in my logic there is a storyline.”

Wong Kar-wai (1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director

"Wong Kar-wai by Han Ong" in Bomb Magazine (1 Janaury 1998) https://bombmagazine.org/articles/wong-kar-wai-1/

“I don’t smile. My smiles don’t make people relax.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Burned

“As time passes I become more and more afraid of my growing love of music. I don’t understand myself. I play solo sonatas by Bach: next to them, what is Böcklin? It makes me smile.”

Paul Klee (1879–1940) German Swiss painter

Quote (November 1897), # 52, in The Diaries of Paul Klee, translation: Pierre B. Schneider, R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight; publisher, University of California Press, 1964
reflecting on his youth and on the uncertainty about the future of choice to make
1895 - 1902