"When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer."

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Leni Zumas

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“For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than making a "political" film. It's more interesting to raise questions, because I don't feel in a position to "make a statement" with the film. Toni Erdmann comes from a completely different generation then his daughter, it's the post-war generation, they were very politically engaged. They raised their children with a lot of human worldviews, sent them out in the world believing in a world without borders.”
“That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.”
“Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.”
“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory .”

Source : "The Apophenion : A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.
“How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.”
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been.”

Source : Sigmund Freud (2016). “Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Annotated)”, p.25, Sigmund Freud
“The results of the two referenda demonstrate the majority view of the Taiwanese people.”

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