"The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood."

-- Susan Sontag

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“A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“Bad literature is a form of treason.”
“A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.”
“You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.”
“It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.”
“Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To marry a woman with any success a man must have a total experience of her, he must come to see her and accept her in time as well as in space. Besides coming to love what she is now, he must also come to realize and love equally the baby and the child she once was, and the middle-aged woman and the old lady she will eventually become.”
“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”

Source : Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.32

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