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Irish Wish (2024) dir. Janeen Damian

“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandpères ont toujours tort." — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

من عاشق کتاب فیزیکی داشتن و خریدنم. دیوانه‌ی کتابخونه‌ی بزرگ داشتنم. از وقتی یادمه، بزرگترین بخش پول تو جیبی و بعد درآمدم، به کتاب تعلق داشته. هفده سالگی با اولین درآمدم از ترجمه کتاب خریدم. اما چند وقتیه که می‌خوام کتاب بخرم، یه سوال بزرگ تو مغزم شکل می‌گیره: که چی؟ من که تهش باید بذارمشون و برم. هیچ‌جا ثابت نیستم. بخشی از کتابهام توی کمد دیواری خونه‌ی والدینم هستن، تعدادی‌شون خونه‌ی مادربزرگم. یه سری‌شون پیش آریان، بقیه هم خونه‌ی خودم. ولی تهش چی؟ من که دارم تلاشم رو می‌کنم مهاجرت کنم، چطور می‌خوام این همه کتاب رو با خودم بکشم اینور و اونور جهان؟ من که خونه‌ی دائمی ندارم، پناه ندارم، بخوام برم باید کتابام رو کجا بذارم؟ حس ریسمان تعلق بهم می‌دن. انگار هرچی کتاب‌های بیشتری داشته باشم، بیشتر به اون مکان تعلق دارم و این حس رهایی که هروقت بخوام می‌تونم برم، ازم گرفته شده. سر همینه که خیلی وقته کتاب فیزیکی نمی‌خرم. انگار اون بار روی دوشم نیست. مجبور نیستم چیزهایی که دوستشون دارم رو ول کنم و برم، یا بدتر، دنبال خودم هرگوشه که می‌رم بکشم و ببینم چطور آسیب می‌بینن.

“you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.” — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect simply a confession of failure.” — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.” — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce.” — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde