In the end, everything is found to be wanting. Frank Lentricchia More Quotes by Frank Lentricchia More Quotes From Frank Lentricchia The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears. Frank Lentricchia space views mind People are mysterious, even to themselves. Frank Lentricchia mysterious people Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it. Frank Lentricchia black-and-white communication past No one can be the total cure for another person. Frank Lentricchia cures persons I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies. Frank Lentricchia eye real people Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom. Frank Lentricchia i-promise palaces promise
