"Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be."

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Source : October 14, 1932 entry in "Ego". Book by James Agate, 1935.

James Agate

#Looks Quotes #Abnormal Quotes #Force Quotes

“It was such a thrill. I found the roughest, toughest girls who love to party. They study and work all day in the Agricultural world and college and then they party. I met one girl at 3 am and she was so drunk and said 'l have to get up and cut a sheep's throat at 9 am.' I met another who was a wool classer. She said 'I can drink to 4 in the morning and class wool from 6 am. So I wrote Girls Out There about them.”
“When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.”
“I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?”
“Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.”
“I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.”
“The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious”

Source : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)”
“Powerful people come from all walks of life and leave their mark upon the world in a variety of ways. But one thing is common to them all. They move through the world with pure vitality. It is as though all their switches have been turned on.”

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