"Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves."

-- Matthew Specktor

#Understanding Quotes

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
“I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'”
“If you have had no tension in your life, never been screwed up by problems, your mortality well within your own grasp, and someone tells you that God so loved you that He gave His Son to die for you, nothing but good manners will keep you from being amused.”
“But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.”
“Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.”
“We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.”

Source : "Axed Danny Baker delivers on-air rant at his BBC London bosses" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2012.
“When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.”
“It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.”

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