"Art is actually based on the notion that if you would really celebrate an idea or a principle, you must think, you must plan, you must put yourself completely in the state of devotion, and not simply give the first thing that comes to your head"

-- Maya Deren

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“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
“One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch.”

Source : Gilbert Burnet (1840). “Bishop Burnet's history of his own time”, p.397
“If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.”
“Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.”
“It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes.”
“Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press
“It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.”
“I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.”

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