"To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated."

-- Shelley Winters

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“That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.”

Source : Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (1998). “Dear genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom”, Harpercollins
“Joy is the clearest indicator of deep wellness.”
“Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.”
“What I need is to believe in myself againâ€” for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.”

Source : Letter to a nephew, February 9, 1893.
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of oneâ€™s own destruction, has become a â€œbiologicalâ€ need.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1969). “An Essay on Liberation”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.”
“None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.”
“But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.”

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