"Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd."

-- May Sarton

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“That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless”
“The artist in me cries out for design.”
“Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.”
“I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.”
“Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.”
“Sudan, I've come to discover, is a country which, once it gets hold of you, does not let go.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.”

Source : Pascal Boyer (2001). “Religion Explained: The Human Instincts that Fashion Gods, Spirits and Ancestors”, Random House (UK)
“When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.”

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