"If you mean to profit, learn to praise."

-- Charles Churchill

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“Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.”

Source : "On Self-Sufficiency". Book by Teles of Megara, fragment 2,
“Marriage should be about fun,â€ she says gently. â€œItâ€™s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If itâ€™s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, whatâ€™s the point? You know Iâ€™ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because heâ€™s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but heâ€™s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and heâ€™s still the person who makes me laugh the most.”
“Obviously I don't want to make a film that offends people, but the whole world is so politically correct - I'm not going to not do something because it may be politically incorrect. At some point, the metaphors and allegories break down. They disappear, and you just have science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2009.
“Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.”
“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
“Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.”
“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”
“I got love from my family. I don't really need love from a paper, you know what I mean? I can't get too happy because somebody said something nice about me. I appreciate it, but let's not get it twisted - this is not changing my life.”

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