"When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel."

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Andre Soltner

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“And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.”
“I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.”
“My weak spot is laziness. I have a lot of weak spots - cookies, croissants; my wife is always lecturing me about this, I tend to put it all down as habit or it's just acting.”
“I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.”
“You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.”
“Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.133, Macmillan
“Thatâ€™s the interesting thing about the philosophy â€” to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.”
“Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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