"I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years."

-- Albert Maltz

#Drama Quotes #School Quotes #Yale Quotes

“The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”

Source : Caleb Carr (2006). “The Alienist: A Novel”, p.171, Random House
“Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.”
“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.”
“But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing.”
“Before I begin, let me say right here and now that I'm a country boy. And, man, I mean the real backwoods! That's at the start of the start of the thing, and that's at the heart of the thing.”
“If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.”
“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.”
“We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.89, Anchor

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