"If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction."

-- Gian-Carlo Rota

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“Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.”

Source : Anna Kavan (1947). “The House of Sleep”
“They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days, you definitely want that engagement.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.”
“Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
“Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.”
“We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
“What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.”

Source : Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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