"Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult."

-- Douglas Harding

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“Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.”
“You can not kill that which is already dead.”
“You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.”
“As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.”

Source : "Writer-Director Brian Helgeland". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 12, 2001.
“Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place”
“On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it!”
“When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.”
“You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media

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