"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

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“We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Rest when you need to, but never quit.”
“(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
“The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.”
“Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”
“Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.”
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.”

Source : "Physics, in What is Science?: Twelve Eminent Scientists and Philosophers Explain Their Various Fields to the Layman". Book by James Roy Newman, published by Simon and Schuster, p. 102, 1955.
“In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.”

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