"Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering"

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Zora Neale Hurston

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“If we could travel into the past, it's mind-boggling what would be possible. For one thing, history would become an experimental science, which it certainly isn't today. The possible insights into our own past and nature and origins would be dazzling. For another, we would be facing the deep paradoxes of interfering with the scheme of causality that has led to our own time and ourselves. I have no idea whether it's possible, but it's certainly worth exploring.”
“In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.”
“At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered.”

Source : "Cosmopolis". Ch. 5 "Countess Steno". Book by Paul Bourget, 1892.
“Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations.”
“I got a new job.â€ Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.”
“Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.”
“The bravery of Stanley Kramer's 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' amounted to two Hollywood legends - Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy - telling the world that a black son-in-law is something they can live with, and so should you, especially if he looks like Sidney Poitier and has degrees.”
“Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.”

Source : "Ruth Wilson". Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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