"New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East."

-- John Gregory Dunne

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“Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.”
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Source : Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books
“No person loving or admiring himself is alone.”

Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
“Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
“Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor.”
“A witty vicar once said that a good marriage is like a pair of scissors with the couple inseparable joined, often moving in opposite directions, yet always destroying anyone who comes between them. The trick is for the blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.”

Source : Kristin James, Mary Jo Putney, Julie Tetel (1994). “Promised Brides”
“To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.”

Source : "The Stax Report: Script Review Of Rollerball". www.ign.com. July 14, 2000.
“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

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