"the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!"

-- Frances Wright

#Lying Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.”

Source : "Patrick Ness slams library cuts". www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
“I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.”
“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”
“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.”

Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
“It's nice to make a project where you can show the full breadth of who you are.”
“I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.”
“When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.”

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