"Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting."

-- Mary McCarthy

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“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.”
“Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims.”
“The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.”

Source : Stuart Chase (2015). “Tyranny of Words”, p.323, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.”
“Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.”
“[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.”
“Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.25, Princeton University Press
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”

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