"I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form."

-- Michael Haneke

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“We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.”
“Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan
“Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”
“Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
“The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.”

Source : Norris Church Mailer (2007). “Cheap Diamonds: A Novel”, p.64, Random House
“The fact is all golfers are equipment junkies and professional golfers are the worst of the lot. They'll do anything to find the perfect putter even though they'll insist no such instrument exists.”
“What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.”

Source : Gervase Markham, William Lawson (1668). “A Way to Get Wealth: Containing Six Principall Vocations, Or Callings, in which Every Good Husband Or House-wife May Lawfully Imploy Themselves ...”
“The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names...”

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