"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice."

-- Louis Kronenberger

#Vices Quotes #Harm Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.”
“Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...”
“It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.”
“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
“I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas John Slaughter. The Andy Griffith Show hired me to play Thelma Lou. I only worked when they called me. I would do an episode in two days and I got paid $500. After all the federal, state and local taxes were taken out and then my agent's commission I only got $200 some dollars per episode.”
“It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. Â No one is born with that skill. Â It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. Â And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
“We have to stop harming children in child care. I'm trying to make us stop. I wouldn't know what to do otherwise.”
“You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.”

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