"Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god."

-- John Ralston Saul

#Cheating Quotes #Religious Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
“It's best to give while your hand is still warm.”

Source : Philip Roth (2006). “Everyman”, p.188, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.”
“writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.”
“Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.”
“Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.
“Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.”

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