"When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity."

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Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

Jean Rostand

#Inspirational Quotes #Pity Quotes #Young Quotes

“In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.”
“Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.”
“In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2014). “Synge: Complete Plays: In the Shadow of the Glen; Riders to the Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I could never be cynical, not that I think there's anything wrong with cynicism. I think it can be quite funny at times. But I just feel so grateful to be alive.”
“The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.”
“You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.”
“While we can generalize when describing a given medium as hot or cool, all media can be said to possess both hot and cool aspects to varying degrees, and part of what I try to do with comics is figure out when and how the temperature needs raising or lowering.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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