"I found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics."

-- Daniel Ellsberg

“You can't live in paradiseâ€”but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.”
“Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.”

Source : Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner
“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.”
“I can talk about film theory forever and it may sound pretentious or something, but really it's just that I'm fascinated by it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Each moment is a place you've never been.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Knopf
“Whateverâ€™s inside making me what I am, itâ€™s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.”
“The experience I learned was that â€¦ if you leave decision to the public, you can be killedâ€¦ I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
“To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.”

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