"I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands."

-- Jim Thompson

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“It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]”
“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the corporate world you get a report card every quarter and have to talk about it, whereas the church can drip, drip through bad trends for decades and decades.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“I wasnâ€™t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. Thatâ€™s why Iâ€™d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: â€˜Oh my God â€“ I hope you donâ€™t murder me!â€™”
“I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.”
“When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed. If I am killed by common men, you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock, you and your family will be killed by the Russian people! Pray Tsar of Russia. Pray.”
“Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.”

Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.76, Institute of GS

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