"The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority."

-- Stephen Batchelor

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“I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
“anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly”
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“The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.”
“Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.”

Source : "Artist Dave Gibbons' Gut Feelings on the Watchmen Movie". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2008.
“I may have had good reasons. I may have had the best of intentions. But intentions arenâ€™t enough, no matter how good they are. Intentions can lead you to a place where youâ€™re able to make a choice. Itâ€™s the choice that counts.”
“I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.”
“Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

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