"Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind."

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Source : Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2048, Delphi Classics

Margaret Oliphant

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“When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet.”
“Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.”
“I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.”
“An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.”

Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press
“There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, â€˜ he said. â€œWe racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.”
“I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story.”

Source : "Wanted: female film-makers" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.
“David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow”
“Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.”

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