"Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?"

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Insanity Quotes #Matter Quotes #Dropping Quotes

“whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.”
“The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story . . ..”
“I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.”
“I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2002). “Best Mysteries of All Time: A Stranger in My Grave”, Impress
“I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.”
“Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.”

Source : Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. January 28, 2015.
“When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.”

Source : Willie Morris (2012). “Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town”, p.27, University of Arkansas Press
“With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.”

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