"But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution."

-- Neal Ascherson

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“And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.”
“In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.”
“To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.”
“It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem for us. We feel justified in being annoyed with everything. We feel justified in denigrating ourselves or in feeling that we are more clever than other people. Self-importance hurts us, limiting us to the narrow world of our likes and dislikes. We end up bored to death with ourselves and our world. We end up never satisfied.”
“There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.”
“Prayer is the fruit of joy and thankfulness.”

Source : Evagrius (Ponticus) (1970). “The Praktikos”
“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
“I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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