"I find it hard to deliver straightforward things."

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Ang Lee

#Straightforward Quotes

“I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?”

Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.331, Pickle Partners Publishing
“"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."”
“There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.”
“Life there was hard and it made people hard.”
“Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.”

Source : Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.111, Henry Holt and Company
“Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out”
“Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.”
“i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”

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