"When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't..."

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Source : "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

Luke Davies

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“I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips”
“The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you.”
“I think you run out of 'I love yous”
“We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.”
“I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.”
“I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look, I just want you to know that your top priority is to go after Osama bin Laden.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism”

Source : "Collected works of Thanthai Periyar E.V. Ramasami". Book published by Periyar Self-Respect Propaganda Institution, p. 49, 1981.

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