"It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political."

-- Jonathan Coe

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“If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.”
“I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.”
“Many older women are inhibited and afraid to act. It is such a waste of human potential.”
“ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to. For me personally as a viewer, this technique invariably causes me to have waves of emotions that I think arise from a profound form of mindful awareness and the feelings that go along with that. I am frequently brought to tears by this kind of existential cinematic technique.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.”
“People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.”

Source : "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.
“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”
“O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard, Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure”

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