"My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark."

-- Robert Breault

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“I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.”
“There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.”
“I believe that beauty is a basic service.”
“The body says what words cannot.”

Source : "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.
“We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.”
“Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.”
“When you think of it I haven't really done a lot of horror. It's amazing: I have done some really good ones, but I haven't done a lot of them.”
“The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.”

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