"It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly."

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Source : John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.48, Oberon Books

John Osborne

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“There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.”
“Quitting is leading too.”
“I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.”
“A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.”
“The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.”
“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.”
“Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.”

Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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