"If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed."

-- Maria Theresa

#Compassion Quotes #Wish Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.”
“I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.”
“The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.”
“Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.”
“In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.”
“Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?”
“Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.8, New York Review of Books
“The drawings are terribly good.”

Source : Christopher Fowler (2010). “Seventy-Seven Clocks: (Bryant & May Book 3)”, p.187, Random House

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