"To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words."

-- David Lynch

#Stories Quotes #Abstract Quotes #Said Quotes

“music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“What Jesus meant was that whoever is attached to the worldly life and this earthly body will lose them in death. But whoever lets go of attachments to this worldly life and this earthly body and identifies with the permanence or God-consciousness that Jesus represented, will never die.”

Source : Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press
“The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges...”
“In their minds, the murderers and accomplices of Germany, and Poland, and Hungary, and so many, many other places didn't do something evil. They convinced themselves it was the right thing to do, the thing they had to do. That's what people do. And that should truly frighten us.”

Source : "Why I Require FBI Agents to Visit the Holocaust Museum". Speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2015.
“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”
“Don't choose the better guy, choose the guy that's gonna make you the better girl”

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