"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river."

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Al-Ghazali

“When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.”
“At the end of that two weeks Bernard [Leach] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big oil-fired kiln that they had. He was still sitting what we call a kiln watch at that time, and he wondered if we would like to sit the watch with him and talk. So naturally this was our last opportunity to talk with him, so we said yes. We didn't realize Bernard's kiln watch was from 1:00 in the morning until 4:00 AM.”
“I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.”
“How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.”

Source : "Blanche et Guiscard". Play by Bernard-Joseph Saurin (Act V, Scene 5), translated, September 25, 1763.
“Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?”
“When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.”
“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”
“The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.”

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