"Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue."

-- August Wilhelm von Schlegel

#Art Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
“I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit”
“The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.”
“I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.”
“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.”
“When one man says, â€œNo, I wonâ€™t,â€ Rome begins to fear.”
“Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.”
“Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse â€” came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra”

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