Cinema

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding tears, racked as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious, or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about the exterior of the human face, so vast and palpable, with the eyes and the lips. It is all writ too large for me, too immediate for me).” – Martin Amis

Youth and age

I. “Youth is a disease which time cures.” 

— J.W. von Goethe

 

II. “Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.” 

— Serge Gainsbourg