"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."

-- E. M. Forster

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“I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.”
“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.”
“True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.”
“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”
“In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.”
“...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.”
“They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.”
“Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.”

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