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Michael Cunningham
"Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity."
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Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.198, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Michael Cunningham
#Stars Quotes
#Moving Quotes
#Silly Quotes
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“Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed Cinna already. Destroyed my home. My family, Gale, and even Haymitch are out of his reach. Peeta's all he has left. "So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask. Prim sound about a thousand years old when she speaks."Whatever it takes to break you.”
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“This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.”
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“The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.”
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“I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.”
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“I feel like everything has happened naturally.”
Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 2, 2004.
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“For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“My favorite term for a new kind of performance is "security theater." In this genre, we watch as ritualized inspections and patdowns create the illusion of security. It's a form that has become common since 9/11, and even the government agencies that participate in this activity acknowledge,off the record, that it is indeed a species of theater.”
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“There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.”