"It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Behind The Scenes Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Fame Quotes

“There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.”
“The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one”

Source : Thomas Chalmers (1861). “The Expulsive Power of a New Affection. A sermon”, p.11
“I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.”
“I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.”
“The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.”

Source : Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
“It is great fun dying in the United States of America. It is great fun first of all for the undertakers who make a wonderful living out of it but also for the deceased who suddenly becomes the centre of attention and fuss.”
“If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.”

Source : "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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