quotes

for film showing yesterday in celebration of Social Science week, my blockmates (along with other students) filled the Little Theater. we watched The Life of David Gale and Fidel (a film documentary on Fidel Castro).

The Life of David Gale is the newly added movie to my list of favorite movies. it's a stellar movie that i suggest you watch. if you can't find a copy, then boo for you! i want to picket outside school and announce to everyone how this movie is such a great movie with a good point. the following are my favorite lines from it:

We spend our whole life trying to stop death. Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing. But what do we really know about death? Just that nobody comes back. Then there comes a point - a moment - in life when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses... Maybe death is a gift.

Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

and lastly, another one from Sylvia Plath:

Is there no way out of the mind?