"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

-- Voltaire

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“Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.”

Source : Song: Inner City Blues, Album: Cold Fact, 1970
“The worst thing that can happen is when you have gone weeks and months into elaborate sequences and the storyline of the film changes and you find out they don't need it. Sometimes you don't shoot those sequences, or they have been shot and then get edited out of the sequence you've shot gets changed and needs to be redone. That can be hard. It's not heartbreaking, but you do tend to think, "Och, all that work and effort." But that's filming, you know? You put all of these modular things into the pot, and sometimes they don't all get used.”
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”
“It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.”
“The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.”
“the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.”
“All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.”
“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”

Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK

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