"Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years."

-- Gore Vidal

#Communication Quotes #Years Quotes #Balzac Quotes

“People are so sensitive, people are so defensive. I agree with you. We have to learn to loosen up, lighten up, and laugh a little bit.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.”
“I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.”

Source : "Director Karan Johar Exclusive Interview MY NAME IS KHAN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 7, 2010.
“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
“We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.”
“It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.”
“Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!”
“American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.”

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