"The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment."

-- Tennessee Williams

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“[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.”
“It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.”
“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.”
“One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand”
“Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Don't be a rock star. I've seen people around me have their lives destroyed by drugs. It just depends on what kind of person you are. Like, some people have a "go" button and a "stop" button, and some people just have the "go" button, meaning that they take drugs and just take more, and more, and more. It could be 6 in the morning and they'll say, "Okay, I have to get more now." I'm not that kind of person.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Did you just ask me out on a date, Ms Parker?â€ â€œNo.â€ â€œAre you sure? Because I-â€ â€œStill no. I need something, and youâ€™re the only guy who can give it to me.â€ She cut him off before he could even say the words. â€œYes, thank you. Iâ€™m aware of how that sounded. Iâ€™m hanging up now.”
“I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!”

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