"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things"

-- Clifford Geertz

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The secret to tapping into the supernatural is for you to have the courage to do the natural first.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2010). “Fear Fighters: How to Live With Confidence in a World Driven by Fear”, p.154, Charisma Media
“The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.”

Source : Jackson Katz (2006). “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.”
“My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“The best way to help people is to see the best in them.”
“The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.”
“And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.”

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