"I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic."

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Marilyn Monroe

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“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

Source : David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”
“I love Mardi Gras. I'm a street rat.”
“I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of ***** sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in Chinaâ€¦you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.”
“Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.37
“A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.”
“Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.”
“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.”

Source : "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham, content.time.com. June 21, 2012.
“It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.111, Random House

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