"Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice."

-- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

#Practice Quotes #Problem Quotes #Insight Quotes

“I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.”
“We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.”
“Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed”

Source : ""Face the Nation" transcripts, August 5, 2012: McDonnell, Rendell, Strickland, Diaz-Balart". www.cbsnews.com. August 5, 2012.
“You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.”
“The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...”
“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.”
“If you'd offered me a 69 at the start this morning I'd have been all over you!”
“The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizzinessor disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”

Source : William H. Gass (1978). “The world within the word: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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