"The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth."

-- William H. Gass

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“It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys,”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Words and music equally important. But the way to get what I'm looking for is different in each case. I have something specific I'm hoping for with the words and the music, and the way to get the words the way I like them is to take a long time, and the way to get the music I like it is to not let me or anyone else get in the way of it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.”
“I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.61, Broadway Books
“But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.”
“. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.”
“Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.”
“I don't back down. I never win, but I don't back down”

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