"Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence."

-- Ruth St. Denis

#Essence Quotes #World Quotes #Divine Quotes

“It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
“War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press
“We do not have to live in the dark they live in.”
“He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own, this girl who had decided yes, a brief moment of release in the back of a car, in the room of a silent house, this girl who had stood up later, adjusting her clothes, with now knowledge of how that moment was already shaping her life.”
“My strategy to show caricature idea of American youth culture, which I think worked after talking about it for so many years, is that I had only a few things. I wanted to buy my own wardrobe for Rock 'N' Roll High School, which of course they said "Yes" to, because their clothing budget was $200, and I ended up spending my whole salary - which I think was about $2,100 - on my clothes. And also, any time I was onscreen, I wanted to have as much energy as I possibly could. I think it just really worked for the character.”
“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”
“Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.”
“What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?”

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