"Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous."

-- Julian Burnside

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“I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.”
“Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.”
“I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.”
“As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.”
“Humanism cannot survive on a purely secular platform.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.”
“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.”
“I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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