"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."

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Source : Equus (1973) act 2, sc. 35

Peter Shaffer

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“I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?”
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.”

Source : Mary Quant (1966). “Quant”
“My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many of them may even be a hundred years older than Islam itself. Even within Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants.”
“People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.”

Source : "Blanka Vlasic mixes mischief with medals as she aims for clean sweep". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2010.
“I see old age not as something to hide from or dread (though there is much to oppose in the usual treatment of the old) but rather as something to embrace as the natural and inevitable end.”
“And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were told in the Second Commandment we could make no images of this God, and I don't think that means just building idols, I think that means also trying to believe you've captured God in your words, in the Creeds, in the Scriptures.”

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