"Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay."

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Eric Hoffer

#Power Quotes #Men Quotes #Clay Quotes

“Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.”
“People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.”
“To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.”
“As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.186
“The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.”
“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”
“So you were born, and that was a good day. Some day you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in the between, you'll live a life of which we'll all dream, and nothing and no one will ever take that away.”

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