"High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces."

-- Camille Paglia

#Struggle Quotes #Fire Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“But if itâ€™s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!”
“You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”

Source : Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin
“Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.”
“I think making a good film shot is joyful.”
“Emmett thought about that for a moment. 'You really... love her?' 'I can't even describe it, Emmett. All of a sudden, this girl's the whole world to me. I don't see the point of the rest of the world without her anymore”
“There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.”
“In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.”

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