"Evil and laughter cannot co-exist."

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Alice Thomas Ellis

#Laughter Quotes #Evil Quotes

“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”
“For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.”

Source : Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins
“Thailand's been good. Mike Swick and his camp there have been awesome. I initially went there on the 12th week and was going to finish my camp here for the last eight weeks but instead I just stayed the whole time.”
“One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.”
“There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.”

Source : Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.60, Penguin
“Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
“Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.”

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