"What else is belief but direction?"

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Mohsin Hamid

“Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.”
“In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs which move the puppets in the arena of democratic elections. Men of this kind are ever ready with loud speeches lauding equality; in reality, they rule the people as any despot or military dictator might rule it.”
“The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.”

Source : "Garth Ennis At The Barcelona International Comicon!". MTV Geek Interview, www.mtv.com. April 20, 2011.
“Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.”

Source : Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”
“To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.14, New York Review of Books
“Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.”
“We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person who is trying to hide things, or do things?”
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

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