"I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelingsâ€¦"

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.101, Petrarca Press

Mary MacLane

#Evil Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.”
“Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty... satisfaction. That's what I'm... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great.”
“I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably.”
“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.”
“I'm thrilled with my body of work.”
“Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.”
“I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.”
“We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.”

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