"Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous."

-- Anais Nin

#Lying Quotes #Reality Quotes #Organization Quotes

“You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.137, Chicken House
“Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.”
“Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.”
“Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.”
“There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“I love card games, and I've always loved board games and stuff like that as a kid, and I think it's that part of your brain that's engaged in con movies. It's like this 'Who's outsmarting whom?'”
“Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.”
“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.”

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