"The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on."

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Source : Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

Guillermo del Toro

#Butterfly Quotes #Self Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.”
“I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.365, Del Rey
“Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.”
“A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.435, Ballantine Books
“Each one of us, in his timidity, has a limit beyond which he is outraged. It is inevitable that he who by concentrated application has extended this limit for himself, should arouse the resentment of those who have accepted conventions which, since accepted by all, require no initiative of application. And this resentment generally takes the form of meaningless laughter or of criticism, if not persecution.”

Source : Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.”
“Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.”
“In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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