86 Quotes by Stephanie Danler

Salting the most nuanced of enterprises, the food always requesting more, but the tipping point fatal.

It’s alway the simple things, well executed, that are memorable.

I mean that we can allow ourselves to live and not really know what it is that we’re doing. That’s all right. It’s an accumulation stage.

You know what I dislike? When people use the future as a consolation for the present. I don’t know if there is anything less helpful.

It’s brave if you make it, foolish if you fail.

Or maybe it means we’ve forgotten ourselves. And we keep forgetting ourselves. And that’s the big grown-up secret to survival.” I.

Sundays had a candid feeling. There were no laws, no stakes.

I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it’s a constant assault of color and taste and light and it’s raw and ugly and fast and it’s mine. And you’ll never understand. Until you live it, you don’t know.

You knew what was playing at Film Forum, and you corrected anyone who lumped Godard and Truffaut together.