"A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain."

-- Verlyn Klinkenborg

#Brain Quotes #Matter Quotes #Causes Quotes

“Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.”
“I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.”
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
“There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.”
“Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world cannot be sustained because meaninglessness, anomie, and despair will corrode the desire to be sustained and the belief that humanity is worth sustaining. But these are the very things that distinguish the modern age from its predecessors, Genuine sustainability, in other words, will come not from superficial changes but from a deeper process akin to humankind growing up to a fuller stature.”
“Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“White does not exist in nature.”
“Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.”

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