"History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious."

-- Paul Valery

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #People Quotes

“My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.”
“If there is a God, why did he make me an atheist?”

Source : "Inside the Actors Studio", 2009.
“Can't keep you home, you're messin' around, my best friend told me you're the best trick in town.”
“Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.”
“I think Veblen had an interest in logic.”
“I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.”
“It's not a very sane thing to try to be great all the time. You want to make something magical; you want to make something wonderful; you want to give to everybody; you want to heal people; you want to still be inspired. That's not easy.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February, 28 2011.
“No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.”

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