"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."

-- John Lennon

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“How can one talk in a classical language about a child who's torn apart in an explosion in the market near his school? People in Iraq don't talk about their joys, their problems, and the destruction of the country in literary diction.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The truth is undeniable. You tell somebody the truth, it's undeniable.”
“Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly.”
“Receive, Lord, all my liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will.”
“I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America.”
“What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.”
“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”
“Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.”

Source : Of Ronald Reagan. Quoted in Jack Finney From Time to Time (1995).

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