"I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?"

-- Clive Barnes

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“You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.”

Source : "Billy Bathgate". Book by E. L. Doctorow, 1989.
“Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.”

Source : "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.
“The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.”
“Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.”
“It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
“One of the cooler moments of my life was sitting front row at Helmut Lang!”
“I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.”
“We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.”

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