"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

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Alistair Cooke

#Greek Quotes #Hollywood Quotes #Factories Quotes

“The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.”
“How long can a man live on the outside before he loses his ability to love? How long before there's no more hope?”
“The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.”
“The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.”
“Surviving war is an excellent training process. If it weren't so brutal, I 'd recommend it as an excellent start-up course in life. I feel that over years of endurance, hard work and perseverance of determination and conviction, of claiming our rights to stay alive, to be free and to be ourselves, of fighting the biggest wars as much as the smaller ones, our will can indeed move mountains for us.”

Source : Joumana Haddad (2011). “I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman”, p.62, Chicago Review Press
“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.”

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