"Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers die? A world where, if two beings love each other and give their lives to each other, both can be sure that one will watch the other perish?"

-- Alfred de Vigny

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“It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”
“Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.”
“Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.91, Library of America
“If youâ€™re not familiar with it, a college degree is a thing that we tell our kids to buy with money they donâ€™t have, in hopes that it will help them make money they might earn, which will give them the ability to pay back the money they spent in order to make the money theyâ€™re paying it back with.”
“What is an individual? Just a bit of life shot off from the one Life in the universe-just a bit of love and truth dropped on this globe, just as the globe itself was once a bit of light and heat dropped from the sun.”
“Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.”
“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.”
“It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical affect on the rest of his life.”

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