"Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost."

-- John Selden

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“The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.”
“We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.”
“Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.”
“I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.”

Source : "Eli Roth Exclusive Interview THE LAST EXORCISM; Plus Updates on FUNHOUSE 3D, MAN WITH THE IRON FIST, ENDANGERED SPECIES, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2010.
“The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.”
“Okay, I like him,â€ I admitted. â€œBut it takes more than a nice body, Jenks. Jeez, I do have a little depth. Youâ€™ve got a great body, and you donâ€™t see me trying to get into your Fruit of the Looms.”
“My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.”
“At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.”

Source : Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

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