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Woody Allen

"Thatâ€™s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thingâ€™s real, it just lives.Â All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejectionâ€”none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But itâ€™s not much help to Truffaut."

-- Woody Allen

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“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source : Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books
“The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.”
“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.”
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
“I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.”
“The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.”
“My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.”
“Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.”

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