"Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort."

-- Ellen Glasgow

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“When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking in at all the swimming fish that are in there. Whereas horror films and thrillers are designed to put the audience into that box, into that aquarium.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You do not know just what you've been forgiven.”
“There's no getting blood out of a turnip.”

Source : Frederick Marryat (1857). “Japhet, in Search of a Father ... A new edition”, p.13
“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
“Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.”
“The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.”

Source : "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.
“When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.”
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

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