Famous quotes containing the words point, register and/or move:
“... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“[Sympathy] is easy to get, and it is not binding. “You have my sympathy”, and inside we say, “and now let us move on to something else.””
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)