"It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create."

-- Leo Tolstoy

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“Art has always been aware of itself as art.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.68, Wave Books
“I don't know where life's going, but soon it will be gone. I hope the wind that's blowing helps me carry on. Turn on the radio, baby listen to my song. Turn on the night light baby, I'm gone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Cohn from Aug 28, 2015
“I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.”
“I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.”
“It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.”
“Iâ€™m a total atheist, and for me itâ€™s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.”
“Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the Latin references to Christ are not to a person of that name. In the Dead Sea Scrolls there was mention of a particular "teacher of righteousness" who had characteristics somewhat like those attributed to Christ, but it might easily have been someone else.”
“Iâ€™ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A Kingâ€™s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.”

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