"With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed."

-- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

#Purpose Quotes #Half Quotes #Glory Quotes

“I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my mind. What happens when the jokester is not allowed to deflect with humor? You then have to feel the pain, and learn that you can survive it. It makes you more resilient and stronger in the long run, and your sense of humor will always be there. Being able to see the funny is deep.”

Source : Source: www.psychologyart.com
“Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.”

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“Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.”
“A man and his tools make a man and his trade.”

Source : "A Saxon Song". "The Independent", Vol. 110, 1923.
“Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.”
“When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.”
“No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.”
“It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, 'objectivity', 'truth', it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.”

Source : "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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