"Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies."

-- Weston La Barre

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“What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.”

Source : "Alice Englert Talks Witch Bar Mitzvahs and Civil War Re-Enactments on the Set of 'Beautiful Creatures'". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 8, 2012.
“The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.”
“I don't have any interest in doing superhero franchise movies. I don't connect to the fantastic and I'm not a comic person, it's just not my thing, so I'm not looking in that direction - but ambitious films on a big scale I'm very interested in looking at. I'm interested in reality, I'm interested in people, so it's just about finding a project I'm interested in.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to write, so there's no way I am depriving myself of reading during that time. Another thing is that reading other writers is continually inspiring - reading great writers reminds you how hard you have to work.”
“There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.”
“trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.”
“My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You canâ€™t change the past, but the future isnâ€™t set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)”

Source : Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.172, Macmillan
“On, those ever-changing moods of Moscow! How swiftly they go from black to white, from one extreme to another, from friendship to accusations, from adoration to hatred, from the permissive 'da' to that annihilating 'nyet.' Those eternal swings from a thaw to a freeze, whims that disregard their own rules, norms, and regulations!”

Source : Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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