"A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em."

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Source : Cyril Tourneur (1965). “The Revenger's Tragedy”, p.64, U of Nebraska Press

Cyril Tourneur

#Running Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Damnation Quotes

“First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.225, Macmillan
“Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.”
“To free the voice is to free the person.”

Source : Kristin Linklater (1976). “Freeing the natural voice”, Drama Pub
“I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.”
“"Smooth Sailing" and "Hall of Fame" are my top two nicknames. "Cool Guy." "Jolly Jon." "Fun Jon." There's a lot of derivatives of Jon. "Cool Jon." Some people took "Smooth Sailing" and "Fun Jon" and made "Smooth Jon." That's a good one. It's just starting to catch on with the general public. Just every now and then, "Hey! Smooth Jon!" Or "You're Smooth Jon, right?!" People aren't quite sure. I'm like, "Yeah." "Okay, cool, that's what I thought!"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.”
“The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
“The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.”

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