"The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying, humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves."

-- Thomas Merton

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“Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically and mentally.”
“Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.”
“How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.”
“... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.”

Source : Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto (1997). “דרך ה׳”, p.57, Feldheim Publishers
“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
“Out of this darkness a new world can arise, not to be constructed by our minds so much as to emerge from our dreams. Even though we cannot see clearly how it's going to turn out, we are still called to let the future into our imagination. We will never be able to build what we have not first cherished in our hearts.”
“Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.”

Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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