"Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts."

-- Brendan Gill

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“Forcing a dog into an alpha roll, or shaking the dog, both constitute physical aggression. Physical aggression is not communication. If there is good communication, then such confrontations need not occur.”

Source : Stanley Coren (2012). “How To Speak Dog”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.”
“True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.”
“When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.”
“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.
“The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.”
“The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.”
“The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.”

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