"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.”
“It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.”
“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.”
“Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.”
“Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.”
“People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.”
“There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.”
“I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.”

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