"I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism."

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Mind Quotes #Church Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.”
“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”
“Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.”
“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
“Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?”
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.”
“Every line of the Hanuman Chalisa is a Mahamantra.”
“This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.”

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