"Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying."

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Source : "The Religion of the Machine Age". Book by Dora Russell, 1983.

Dora Russell

#Perfection Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“It's the reality of our business.”
“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.”
“It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.”
“Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.”
“They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.93, University of Michigan Press
“I only understand realism.”
“Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1868*). “Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams”

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