"A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up."

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Cass McCombs

#Religious Quotes #Reading Quotes #Good Reading Quotes

“When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.”
“Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.”
“There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us.”
“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.”

Source : Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.219, Univ of California Press
“Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.”
“I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.”
“I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.”
“A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell them what needs to be done. And if you don't bring a passion and an intensity to it, you shouldn't be doing it.”

Source : James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.151, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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