"Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings."

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Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.73

Joseph Hall

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“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.”
“Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”
“All people are most credulous when they are most happy.”

Source : Walter Bagehot (2007). “Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market”, p.160, Cosimo, Inc.
“The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.”
“The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.”
“Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?”
“When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things about the film, about myself, and about others. That is what I'm subconsciously looking for when shooting a film: to glimpse the enigmas of life, even if I don't resolve them, but at least to uncover them. Cinema is curiosity in the most intense meaning of the word.”

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