"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

-- Sophocles

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“Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.”

Source : Marc Maron (2002). “The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah”, p.108, Crown Archetype
“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.”
“I lived in a tiny Midwest town, so I was always looking for adventure.”
“You have to define how much of a cultural politician you are as a performer. There are times where I just want to remain a civilian.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.”
“Before my commercial career, I never played for more than an audience of 99 seats somewhere in downtown New York, but occasionally someone would recognize me in the subway and say, "Oh, I saw you in that play, you were really great in that," or "the director was really something." It becomes a conversation. When people spot me on the street from my work in commercials, there's nowhere for the conversation to go. Obviously I'm an actor and I can't.”
“Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?”

Source : Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco
“The only ones who fly are the one who dare to fly.”

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