"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."

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Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

Stella Adler

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“In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”
“Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently they can do it, but far worse, to see how much faster and more efficiently they are than a party which did the same climb a few days before. The climb becomes secondary, no more important than a racetrack. Man is pitted against man.”
“The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.”
“My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.”
“You have to be willing to throw [writing] stuff away and replace it.”
“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
“The mark of true wealth is determined by how much one can give away.”
“No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.”

Source : George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

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