"Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable."

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John Wesley

#Character Quotes #Religion Quotes #Vices Quotes

“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”

Source : "What fear can teach us". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
“Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?”
“The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.”
“People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.”
“Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the absence of self.”
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills â€” every emotion that any human ever had â€” and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”

Source : Letter to his parents from Paris, December 5, 1919.

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