"For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?"

-- Voltaire

“After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.”

Source : "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.
“Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.”
“Music is love searching for a word.”
“I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.”
“I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love”
“I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.”
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society.”

Source : Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Being”, p.90, Open Road Media
“It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?”

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