"Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest."

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Source : Erving Goffman (2005). “Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior”, p.95, AldineTransaction

Erving Goffman

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“I put in all the dirty words. It works really well. The thing that we found with 'Drive Angry,' more than anything else is that we wrote the movie that we wanted to see. I've done that before. I've wanted to see 'Jason X'. It did not become the movie that I thought it would be. That happens. It's happened with every movie I've ever done.”
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
“In life, every ending is just the start of another story.”

Source : Julian Barnes (2000). “Love, etc”, Jonathan Cape
“Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.”
“In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.”
“As soon as I had a guitar I loved it, and I started playing in every spare moment.”

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“Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.”

Source : Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing oneâ€™s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.”

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