"I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind."

-- Philippe Falardeau

#Suicide Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.”
“The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.”
“What happens is all these things we're seeing â€“ campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years ago â€“ that is the industrial paradigm exceeding its efficiency. So these Latin squiggly words that we're learning to say â€“ bovine spongiform encephalopathy â€“ are nature's language screaming to us: ENOUGH! And the question then is: what will it take for us to listen? And my contention is that Wall Street is still wearing conquistador mentality and uniforms, and nobody is listening to the pleadings of nature saying: 'Enough.'”
“It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here”

Source : Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.35, Hachette UK
“The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.”
“Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever”
“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”

Source : Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin
“It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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