"Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society."

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Source : John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

John Fowles

#People Quotes #Cherish Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”
“I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.”
“We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.”
“People just want to have access to all of the world's music.”
“This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.”
“Truth, like love, is never absolute.”
“I have two false hips, a wired-up right knee, two crushed discs and scoliosis. If I don't dance, I seize up.”
“Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.”

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