"There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Rain Quotes #Moon Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.”

Source : Editorial by the North American Congress on Latin America, July 2003.
“Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome”
“When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.”

Source : Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.
“The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.”
“Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.”
“Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.”
“Nightmares have become my dreams. I'm late for my date with destiny. I'm on my path.”
“We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.”

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