"The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty."

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Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “The Paris Diary & The New York Diary: 1951–1961”, p.118, Open Road Media

Ned Rorem

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“It requires less skill to love than to be loved.”

Source : 1991 A Devious Dictionary.
“If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.”

Source : "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.
“I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.”
“Go into the auto mechanic, youve got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.”
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”
“If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.”
“The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.”

Source : Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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