"Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors."

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Jonathan Rauch

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“Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.”
“Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.”
“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
“Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.”
“My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.”
“Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.”
“I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form,”
“After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.”

Source : Janet Kauffman (2008). “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes”, p.108, Wayne State University Press

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