"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

-- George Santayana

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“Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.”
“When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.”
“Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.”

Source : "Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Every Angry Man" by David Edelstein, www.nytimes.com. December 16, 2001.
“I was seduced by secrets, which are to true love as artificial sweetener is to sugar, calorie-free but in the long run carcinogenic, not the real thing, and only a peculiar aftertaste in the mouth to tell you so, to warn you.”

Source : Fay Weldon (1993). “Life Force”
“Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.”

Source : William Wells Brown (1853). “Clotel; or, The president's daughter”, p.179
“We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands”
“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”
“He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.”

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