"If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar."

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Source : Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1908). “The New York idea: a comedy in four acts”

Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

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“I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.”

Source : "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.
“Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.”
“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”
“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”
“But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue ...”
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”

Source : "Between You and Me". Book by Louis Nizer, 1948.
“Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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