"Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen."

-- Robert Bresson

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“Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.”
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.”

Source : 1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
“Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.”
“Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.8, ICS Publications
“Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.”
“Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.”
“The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.”

Source : Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson (1994). “Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation”, Meriwether Publishing
“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge

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