Here’s two quotations. One about the Church, prompted by recent discussions of Rome / Constantinople. The other is about the movies, which I love:
Human Kind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality
… of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft.
She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts.
They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.
– T.S. Eliot “Choruses from ‘The Rock,’” part VI
The Movies are Onto the Search, but they Screw it Up
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life…. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
–Walker Percy, The Moviegoer