"Every fear hides a wish."

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Source : David Mamet (2015). “Mamet Plays: 2: Reunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond”, p.286, Bloomsbury Publishing

David Mamet

#Fear Quotes #Wish Quotes

“To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”

Source : charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”
“Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.”
“Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.”
“I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] MirÃ³ as opposed to my more static exploration of space.”
“It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.”

Source : Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge
“To the best of my knowledge, no war was ever started by women. But it is women and children who have always suffered most in situations of conflict.”

Source : Aung San Suu Kyi's Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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