“(opening lines) The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.”
Source: It (1986)
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Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director
from documentary Traceroute
“I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Karen Blixen book Out of Africa
As quoted in obituaries (7 September 1962)
Variant: God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Source: Out of Africa
Jules Verne book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Voici la conclusion de ce voyage sous les mers. Ce qui se passa pendant cette nuit, comment le canot échappa au formidable remous du Maelstrom, comment Ned Land, Conseil et moi, nous sortîmes du gouffre, je ne saurai le dire.
Part II, ch. XXIII: Conclusion
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
Johan Jongkind (1819–1891) Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism
In a letter to his Dutch friend Eugène Smits, 22 Nov. 1856; as quoted in Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, by Suzanne Boorsch, John Marciari; Yale University. Art Gallery, p. 246 - note 7
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist
Source: 1905 - 1910, Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter) (1908), p. 410
William Saroyan book The Human Comedy
Source: The Human Comedy (1943)
Context: Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. His body can be taken, but not him. You shall know your father better as you grow and know yourself better. He is not dead, because you are alive. Time and accident, illness and weariness took his body, but already you have given it back to him, younger and more eager than ever. I don't expect you to understand anything I'm telling you. But I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
