"What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?"

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Sinclair Lewis

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“All I care about, to be honest, is surfing. I love surfing more than anything. To me, there's nothing like that.”
“I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge.”

Source : "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". Art South Africa Interview, artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.
“I don't think I really accepted my power as a woman until I realized that no was a complete sentence. When I stopped making excuses for saying it and began creating boundaries in my life, I knew real power.”
“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”
“What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
“To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.35, Cambridge University Press
“Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.”
“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".”

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