"What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants."

-- Joseph Wood Krutch

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“When I was 14 I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better,”

Source : "Blake McIver Ewing, ‘Little Rascals’ Star, Is A Full-Fledged Gay Hottie" by James Nichols, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2013.
“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

Source : "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.
“The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”
“Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.”
“All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand”
“I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval.”
“Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.”

Source : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
“This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. â€¦ In photography, you start with the whole world and every decision you make imposes an order on it. The question is to what extent itâ€™s an idealized order Iâ€™m imposing or is it an order that grows out of what the world looks like.”

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