"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."

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Source : Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

Stella Adler

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“It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.”
“I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.”
“I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy”
“It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.”
“A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.”

Source : Jack Vance (1957). “Big Planet”, p.21, Spatterlight Press
“Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.”

Source : "Try it - don't diet" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.”
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

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