"Love has no place for idealization."

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Source : Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

Sudhir Kakar

“The mark of a man is one who knows he can' control his circumstances - but he can control his responses.”
“As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.”
“If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the ***** garbage.”

Source : Samuel Fuller, Christa Fuller, Jerome Rudes (2002). “A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting and Filmmaking”, Knopf
“We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.”
“Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.”
“You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!”
“'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.”

Source : "Lady Antebellum Celebrate 'Sweeter Times' on New Album". Interview with Beville Darden, theboot.com. January 26, 2010.
“Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”

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