"People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others..."

-- Randall Jarrell

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“Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.”

Source : Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.121, Tachyon Publications
“To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.”
“Well, whoâ€™s real? The living or the dead?”
“These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.”
“Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.”

Source : "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.
“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media
“Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.”

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