"â€ŽCivilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship."

-- Emma Goldman

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“I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.”
“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
“I love my wife but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?”
“Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”

Source : Budd Schulberg (2011). “What Makes Sammy Run?”, p.95, Vintage
“I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.”
“A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?”

Source : James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack (1995). “The shepherd's calendar”, Edinburgh Univ Pr
“Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.”

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