"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."

-- Anais Nin

#Freedom Quotes #Reality Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brotherâ€™s death when he accepts Lestatâ€™s offer. Frankensteinâ€™s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Luciferâ€™s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abominationâ€”but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
“The need here is professional closeness tempered by emotional distance.”
“The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.”

Source : Donna Ball (1997). “Just Before Dawn”, Signet
“You're not born knowing how to do math. You're taught that. You're not born knowing how to hate someone. You're taught that. And so I feel I want to use my platform to raise awareness about it. To help raise something positive. In America, you look around and a lot of things that happen - it all stems from that.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”
“It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.”
“Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.”
“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”

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