"I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way."

-- Micah Perks

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
“In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 50), 1937.
“Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.”
“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.”
“It could be anything. It could be Jesus and it could be the Furby and it could be the lint that lives in my navel, but it's probably not. Whatever it is, I doubt we as humans on Earth could have any perception of it while we're here. So, why give yourself a headache thinking about it. Just be a good person. That's what an ethicist is.”
“I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.”
“That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!”
“We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”

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