"No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous."

-- Jonathan V. Last

#Virtue Quotes #Virtuous Quotes

“Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.”
“Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it. Every writer I know is the same way: you get a hundred good reviews, and one bad, andyou remember only the bad. For years, you go on and fantasize about the reviewer who didn't like your book; you imagine him as a jerk, a wife-beater, a real ogre. And, in the meantime, the reviewer has forgotten all about the whole thing. But, twenty years later, the writer still remembers that one bad review.”
“Space is about 100 kilometers away. Thatâ€™s far awayâ€”I wouldnâ€™t want to climb a ladder to get thereâ€”but it isnâ€™t that far away. If youâ€™re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.”
“Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.”

Source : Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.138, Courier Corporation
“I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.”
“Give me the biblical Christ or give me nothing.”
“You had some unexpected help. You had help from God! Essentially, it became a handicap match! Me vs you and God!”
“I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.”

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