"There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?"

-- Karen Essex

#Desire Quotes #World Quotes #Entanglement Quotes

“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
“One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”
“I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.”
“I think that comes with a collaboration with the writers. I think that we get cast in edgier roles because we are a little more offbeat, so people - as we get to know the writers, and as the writers get to know us, they start to write around us more, and that's why I think the pilot is not always the best way to get to experience a new television show, because we're fitting ourselves into these characters. Whereas as the show evolves, they're writing the characters for us and for our strengths and weaknesses.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.”
“A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.16, Regnery Publishing
“A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.”
“I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate with one another, interpret our lives, share our dreams, even form our futures. So when I sit down to write every day, I keep the fun, and also what I consider a large cultural project that connects people, at the center of what I'm doing.”

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