“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Elena Ferrante (1943) Italian writer
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
A veces creo que no existe todo lo que veo. Porque todo lo que veo es todo lo que vi. Y todo lo que vi no existe.
Voces (1943)
George Jean Nathan (1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor
[Lumley, Frederick, New Trends in 20th Century Drama: A Survey Since Ibsen and Shaw, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, London, 12, 978-0-19-519680-1]
“Does not see these separate figures one by one,
And yet see only one”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>What chieftain, walking by himself, crying
Most miserable, most victorious,Does not see these separate figures one by one,
And yet see only one, in his old coat,
His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town,Looking for what was, where it used to be?</p
“It is easier for me to see everything as one thing than to see one thing as one thing.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Me es más fácil ver todas las cosas como una cosa sola, que ver una cosa como una cosa sola.
Voces (1943)
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Steve Blank in interview with Jake Cook, "Steve Blank: Lessons From 35 Years of Making Startups Fail Less" http://99u.com/articles/7256/steve-blank-lessons-from-35-years-of-making-startups-fail-less, U99 website, 2013.
David Zindell (1952) American writer
Source: The Wild (1995), p. 518
Jasper Johns (1930) American artist
Book B (sketchbook), c 1967: as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed. Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 62
1960s