"The past is useless. That explains why it is past."

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Source : Wright Morris (1978). “Cause for Wonder”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press

Wright Morris

#Past Quotes #History Quotes #Useless Quotes

“Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes”
“Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.”

Source : Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America
“Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?”

Source : Kristen Ashley (2012). “Play it Safe”, p.123, Rock Chick LLC
“Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if any at all. What we have to study, therefore, is not psychology-for that applies only to a developed man-but mechanics. Man is not only a machine but a machine which works very much below the standard it would be capable of maintaining if it were working properly.”
“A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.”

Source : "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 55, 1956.
“The way I see it, if you're going to make an action movie, you've got to make one with John Woo”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.”

Source : Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau

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