"Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember as torture, or an hour of torture that you'd forever remember as ecstasy, which would you prefer?"

-- Daniel Gilbert

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“Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.”
“Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.”
“Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.”
“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”
“When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.”
“I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.”
“My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.”

Source : "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.
“I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.”

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