"In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised."

-- John Gimlette

#Talking Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.”
“Thank God for the theater.”
“No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.”
“I told everyone that actings for losers and I needed to get an education. But something kept telling me to give it one last chance. In the end, I lasted a month on the M.B.A. and then decided to quit, come back to L.A., and try again.”
“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”
“She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these womenâ€™s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.168, Ballantine Books
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.”

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