“But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.”

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage.

“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”

Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater.

The first Episode from our Book Club Discussions.

"A Set of regulated Procedures Mechanisms and Techniques of reality control." Teresa de Lauretis.

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”

Sussana Kaysen , Girl, Interrupted (1999).

"That, my friend, is the magic of the movies."

Herman J. Mankiewicz , Mank (2020).

“Time passes irrevocably.”

Virgil.

"Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience."

Stanley Kubrick.

"remember It'S a sin to kill a Mocking. "

Atticus ,To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee

"It'll be just like in the movies .Pretending to be somebody else."

Betty Elms , Mulholland Dr (2001) .

"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part."

Detective Lt. William Somerset , Se7en (1995).

"Control, it's all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge... how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history."

Adam Bell , Enemy (2013).

"The significance of the moth is change. Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa, from thence into beauty. Our Billy wants to change, too."

Dr. Hannibal Lecter , The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

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