"Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men."

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Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Max Frisch

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“This doctrine of baptism for the dead is a great doctrine, one of the most glorious doctrines that was ever revealed to the human family; and there are light, power, glory, honor and immortality in it.”
“As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.”
“I think you can tell when a New York show isn't shot in the city. It's so iconic and has such a specific energy.”

Source : "Theo James (AKA Mr. Pamuk on Downton!) On His New Show Golden Boy, NYC, and More". Interview with Anna Moeslein, www.glamour.com. February 26, 2013.
“One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking”
“I get some very fierce anonymous letters about the Athanasian Creed, which would amuse you, if they were not so sad as to what they imply on the part of the writers. The last tells me that I am a Pharisee, and should have helped to crucify our Lord. It is very odd that people should think, much more write, such things; but the passion of unbelief is a very serious thing while it lasts.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”
“It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing”
“There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.”

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