"Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

#Loyalty Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Passion Quotes

“Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.”
“It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?”
“A good wife maketh a good husband.”
“I think I'm most comfortable when I function in a parallel space that's not separate from political reality, but somehow comments on it from a different portal. The crisis in the Middle East has been ongoing and repetitive and I feel solutions on the ground have reached an impasse. It is somehow necessary to change the way we approach commentary on the subject. I do think that erecting a meta-space that functions according to its own autonomous abstractions and logic could be more effective in finding ways of dealing with the problem at hand, than using our standard tools of analysis.”
“Stories are a different kind of true.”

Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.55, Pan Macmillan
“People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.”
“Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor”
“I don't know if you get anything more adorable than a tiny pig eating an apple. And here's a fun fact. This is how you make apple-smoked bacon.”

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