"Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer."

-- John Lahr

#Suffering Quotes #Refusal Quotes #Species Quotes

“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”

Source : "Salman Rushdie: Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?" by Salman Rushdie, www.independent.co.uk. January 22, 2005.
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.
“The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.”
“Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.110, Grove Press
“I mainly buy books in my free time.”
“We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.”
“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
“Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.”

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