"Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape."

-- Jacob Bronowski

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“Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.”
“The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.”

Source : "Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly: the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam".
“Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.”
“I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.”
“How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do any more to it. And then you need to stop because if you don't, you will spoil it.”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2011). “David”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.”
“And each year now we know more, but we know no better â€” what we see in the sky is simply the softened gloss of the past sifting back to us, and likewise, every atom down the bodyâ€™s shining length was inside a star, and will be again.”

Source : Christopher Buckley (1993). “Dark Matter: Poems”, Copper Beech Press
“You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.”

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