"A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity."

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Source : Manny Farber (2009). “Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies”, p.135, Da Capo Press

Manny Farber

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“I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe, and this is what interests me most about it. I believe that as science advances religion necessarily recedes, and this is a process I wish to encourage, because I consider that, on the whole, the influence of religion is malign.”
“You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.”

Source : "What’s With the Jewish-Man/Asian-Woman Connection, Anyway?" by Deborah Jiang-Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.
“...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.45, St. Martin's Griffin
“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”
“I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.”

Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan
“I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.”
“Today our (Society of Jesus) prime educational objective must be to form men (and women) for others; men (and women) who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ - for the God-man who lived and died for all the world; men (and women) who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men (and women) completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce.”
“Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.”

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