"Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile."

-- Jean Genet

#Stars Quotes #Flower Quotes #Order Quotes

“Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in the total conduct of men rather than in their statements that truth or falsehood lives, more in what a man does, in his real reaction to other men and to things, in his will to do them justice, to live at one with them. Here lies the inner connection between truth and justice. In the realm of behavior and action, the problem recurs as to the difference between piece and part.”
“Only time will tell if it was time well-spent”
“You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.”
“For every hiker, climber or canoeist who gets into trouble, there are thousands more who don't. Peter Bronski's compelling account of misadventures in the Adirondacks is a necessary corrective for those who go into the mountains unwary of the dangers.”
“Money has never been my primary goal.”
“As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.”

Source : "Dana Snyder and Dave Willis on Aqua Teen Hunger Force's limitless potential". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2009.
“Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan
“I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.”

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