"Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long...."

-- Gavin de Becker

#Long Quotes #Needs Quotes #Arbitrary Quotes

“It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.”
“Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.”

Source : Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.14, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
“We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.”
“The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.”

Source : "Breakups: Why I Make Movies About Them With My Boyfriend" by Zoe Lister-Jones, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2012.
“Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.”
“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”
“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.”

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