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Tenderness QUOTES

Tenderness QUOTES

1 " Any good photo is a secret of a secret. It's the unknowable glimpsed within a glimpse, the puzzle in plain sight. It's the question that makes us look for an answer we're never going to find. An open case. An unsolved mystery. A good still is never still - it's restive, alive. "

― Alison MacLeod , Tenderness

2 " Readers are keepers of secrets: as an illicit page is turned, as a dangerous truth is inferred. The pulse quickens. Something explosive ticks between the lines. There is an intake of breath; the voyeur's silent flare of recognition. All the while, his or her face is impassive, unremarkable even, because like all subversives, readers lead careful double lives. "

― Alison MacLeod , Tenderness

3 " A good story was a form of communication, mind to mind, spirit to spirit. It sent life sparking from stranger to stranger, across space, decades and centuries. Human sympathy -- human attention -- had magic in it. Any real story fizzed with sympathy -- the writer's and reader's -- across time, over rows of typographical marks; those low boundary fences of the imagination, hurdled. "

― Alison MacLeod , Tenderness

4 " The cameras roll on in black-and-white, and the silvery expanse of the Sound flashes and flickers, as if the scenes, its players - and the year at its close - have been rinsed in a wide, New World light. "

― Alison MacLeod , Tenderness

5 " High above, the oracle of the moon rose in the watchful night. "

― Alison MacLeod , Tenderness