"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#Art Quotes #Limits Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.”
“I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I like taking genres and subverting them. I did that with In the Valley of Elah. I said, Okay, this is just a murder mystery. Relax. And then, two thirds of the way through, I broke every convention of a murder mystery.”
“Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.”

Source : John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.98, Pan Macmillan
“A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.”
“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2003). “The Fall of Atlantis”, p.391, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.”

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