"if there is one place in the United States where private styles make up for public images, it is San Francisco, where all lapsed lovers of America, even loyalists like me experiencing spasms of disillusionment, should be taken for refresher courses. The tides of all-American conformity beat vainly against the San Franciscan rock."

-- Jan Morris

#Taken Quotes #Rocks Quotes #San Francisco Quotes

“You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it. I am beyond your experience.”
“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”

Source : Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly in 1962. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 117, 1967.
“Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.”
“If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.”
“Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.”
“Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face God always thus, and so to win the power which saves and services man more than any other power can. We can never fully say "My brother!" till we have heartily said "My God!", and we can never heartily say "My God!" till we have humbly said "My Guilt!" That is the root of moral reality, of personal religion.”
“To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.”
“I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.”

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