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“It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.”
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“You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.”
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“We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.”
Source : John Howard Griffin, Thomas Merton (1970). “A hidden wholeness: the visual world of Thomas Merton”, Mariner Books
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“I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.”
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“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”
Source : Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.39, Hachette UK
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“There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.”
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“On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.”