"In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition."

-- Shelley Winters

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“It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.”

Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press
“Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.”

Source : "The Lie of the Truth (Volume 2)". Book by Rene Daumal, 1938.
“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.”
“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster
“The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams.”

Source : Walter Russell Bowie (1931). “On Being Alive”
“Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk”
“I've come to believe, on the journey of mine, that we have a still, small voice - and that voice does come from God. It's there to bring us comfort and to bring us guidance with everything.”
“I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.”

Source : "Running A Comedy Machine: How Chuck Lorre Makes Hits". "Morning Edition", www.kmuw.org. November 27, 2012.

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