"If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other."

-- Emmanuel Levinas

“If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.”
“I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.”

Source : "Discovery: Maddie Hasson". Interview with Frankie Mathieson, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2014.
“Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.”
“No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.”
“I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.”
“While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.”

Source : Larry Evans (1974). “How to Open a Chess Game”
“It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.”
“The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals.”

Source : "An Autobiographical Novel". Book by Kenneth Rexroth. Chapter: "Pysch Ward", www.bopsecrets.org. 1991.

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