"Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

“There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.”
“True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.”

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“The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.”
“Tone is a very difficult thing. You can't write tone, I don't think. You can try - you certainly try. I write too, so I know I'm trying desperately to communicate to whoever's going to direct my pieces, the way I see the humor. But it's very difficult.”

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“Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.”
“I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.”
“A person's rightful due is to be treated as an object of love, not as an object for use.”
“To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning.”

Source : Franz Rosenzweig, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1998). “Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought”, p.18, Hackett Publishing

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