"My cage has many rooms."

-- Stephen Sondheim

#Rooms Quotes #Cages Quotes

“You can't create a new reality with the same personality.”
“The cruelest prison of all is the prison of the mind.”
“What if I was! Thatâ€™s my point. What if I was a bit overweight and not especially pretty? Why is that so terrible? So disgusting? Why is that the end of the world?”
“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada
“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”

Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
“Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.”
“I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes".
“The League of Independent Theater represents a coming together of actual artistic and theatrical forces that may yet undo the difficulty of our times in maintaining the highest artistic standards in a period of economic crisis. Who can save us from the downhill trend of our economy except the vigor of our arts? Theatre, music and education are our only hopes to lift our times beyond their despair and create a viable, prosperous culture.”

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