"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."

-- Alan Watts

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“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.”
“My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John C. Reilly and Philip Seymour Hoffman. They're all just great actors, neither comedic nor dramatic. They're just great actors.”
“Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.”
“The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press
“Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.”
“Not all shabby is chic, just like not every ***** actor is a star.”
“Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”

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