"One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us."

-- Thomas Merton

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“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.”
“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.”

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“It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]”
“Sometimes I'll put a lie for philosophical reasons, and sometimes to make the story shorter.”

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“The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.”
“I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.”
“Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.”
“I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.”

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