"It's hard to have your parents not happy with you."

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Jason Diamond

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“Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.”
“When we talk about the healthcare crisis in America we've got to also be talking about the dental crisis and how to address it.”
“Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.”
“If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.”
“And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'”
“Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction in itself, apart from any attention to the advantages it may procure. Most thinkers would have agreed with ... Renan's verdict that the man who loves science for its fruits commits the worst of blasphemies against that divinity. ... The modern clercs have violently torn up this charter. They proclaim the intellectual functions are only respectable to the extent that they are bound up with the pursuit of concrete advantage.”

Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 151-152, 1927.
“Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.”
“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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