"Pity is always twinged with disgust."

-- Daniel Quinn

#Pity Quotes #Disgusting Quotes

“In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.”
“Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.”
“Perhaps a hero is someone who doesnâ€™t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if youâ€™re too daft to know youâ€™re mortal?”
“To really love Joan Didionâ€”to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcaseâ€”you have to be female.”
“A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.”
“Temples are an expression of God's love”
“We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.”
“Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form of the parable, wonderful short stories that entertained and clothed the moral precept in an eternal form. It is not sufficient to catch man's mind, you must also catch the imaginative faculties of his mind.”

Source : "Film and/as literature". Book by John Harrington, p. 238, 1977.

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