"I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory."

-- Paul Farmer

#Impact Quotes #Social Quotes #Theory Quotes

“No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
“I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. â€¦ I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,â€™ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.”
“Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.”
“The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”

Source : Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd
“All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.”
“My earliest memory is of the best Christmas gift ever, a toy train. I remember riding that thing all through our house.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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