"It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingâ€”they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me."

-- Stephen Fry

#Beauty Quotes #Depression Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“Why were there so many barriers between us, always? Barriers of clothing, of etiquette, of time and age and reason.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.118, Delacorte Press
“I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.”

Source : "Memoirs".
“Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual.”
“If they wish to fight today, let them come like men.”
“Was on my last leg, I couldn't even borrow my friend's extra peg.”
“Kabul is... a thousand tragedies per square mile.”
“The more passionate that someone is about something, the more you have to listen to them.”
“It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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