"It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (1991). “Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case”, Vintage

Shirley Hazzard

#Religious Quotes #Void Quotes #Belief Quotes

“To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of living both personally and historically. That is why science now draws to itself all kinds of people - charlatans, mediocrities, geniuses - everyone who wants to touch the flame, feel alive to the time.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.16, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.”
“Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.”

Source : "4 Directors In Seminar On Movies" by Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 1988.
“Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.”
“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”
“Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.”
“Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.”

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