"When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are."

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Source : Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

Robert Aickman

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“I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.”

Source : "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.
“Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.”
“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”
“My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.”
“I cannot guarantee anything.”
“Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.”
“One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”

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