"The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes."

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Source : Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

Edmund Wilson

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“It was a long time ago. I was talking to a friend about astrology, and he mentioned the Seth books. I'd never heard of them, but I intuitively knew they were important to me. It sounds very romantic, but it really was like that. I took an interest in them right away for no reason.”
“When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?”
“Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.437, Ballantine Books
“Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it.”

Source : Melanie Klein, Anna Guest-Jelley (2014). “Yoga and Body Image: 25 Personal Stories About Beauty, Bravery & Loving Your Body”, p.104, Llewellyn Worldwide
“The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.”
“There's no such thing as a 100-year flood.”
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

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