"To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life."

-- Cecil Rhodes

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“I think control is the wrong word. I would put it this way. You see a lovely girl across a crowded room and you walk toward her with hope in your mind. That's the way [my] pictures are made.”
“Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.”
“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”
“Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.”
“In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.”

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“True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.”
“He was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".”

Source : William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt
“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”

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