"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."

-- Michelle Shocked

#Writing Quotes #Acceptance Quotes #Past Quotes

“Maybe there isn't a God after all, maybe there's only a universe rotating by itself like a millstone.”
“Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth”

Source : "Affronts, Insults and Indignities". Book by Morris Mandel, 1975.
“There are men that are birds, and their raiment is trembling feathers, for they show their souls to everyone and everything that is ungentle or untutored or evil or mockery is as a rude stone cast at them, and they suffer all day long, or as Paul remarks they are slain every moment.”
“It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.”
“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
“I just want to be a professional. I couldn't live without acting.”
“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”
“Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.”

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