"As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man."

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Antisthenes

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“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”
“It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com
“Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.”

Source : Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.9, Union Books
“MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.”
“The desire to please is maligned, unfairly. There are many sides to it. First of all, pictures have to arouse interest before people will even look at them, and then they have to show something that holds that interst - and naturally they have to be presentable, just as a song has to be sung well, otherwise people run away. One mustn't underrate this quality, and I have always been delighted when my pieces have also appealed to the museum guards, the laymen.”
“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.”
“I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.”
“We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.”

Source : Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.104, Random House

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