"Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts."

-- Aldous Huxley

“I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.”
“Music is split up now into little pockets.”
“A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.”
“I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.”

Source : "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.”
“I mean, the Men in Hollywood event is every day. It's called Hollywood.”

Source : "Jennifer Garner's Passionate Speech on Sexism in Hollywood: Ben Affleck Is Only Asked About His Co-Star's 'Tits'" by Brett Malec, www.eonline.com. Ocober 21, 2014.
“God's will is your deepest desires.”
“If you socialize people to care about each other and care about relationships, they tend to be much less violent and tend to think about the consequences of their actions more.”

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