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For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. Film-making was not at all what I had expected. What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. The whole industry evolves around a great song. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment. He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else. With creative people, truly new horizons open up. Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult. By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people. Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead. It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work. I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. My religion lies in my composition. Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style. If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie. I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me. The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

- David Herbert Lawrence


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  2. All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless...
  3. All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
  4. Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
  5. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what...
  6. But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of...
  7. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and...
  8. Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But...
  9. Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
  10. Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various...
  11. Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won...
  12. Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
  13. Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
  14. Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
  15. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most...
  16. God doesn't know things. He is things.
  17. God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated,...
  18. God is only a great imaginative experience.
  19. Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is...
  20. How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
  21. I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man....
  22. I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of...
  23. I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my...
  24. I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a...
  25. I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and...
  26. I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that...
  27. I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd,...
  28. I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a...
  29. I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
  30. I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead...
  31. I shall always be a priest of love.
  32. I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs...
  33. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
  34. If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a...
  35. It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be...
  36. It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have...
  37. It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul....
  38. It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
  39. Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
  40. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
  41. Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
  42. Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
  43. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must...
  44. Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies...
  45. Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one...
  46. Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a...
  47. Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
  48. Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
  49. My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
  50. My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the...
  51. My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is...
  52. Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is...
  53. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to...
  54. Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
  55. Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones....
  56. Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything...
  57. One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners...
  58. One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its...
  59. One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it......
  60. One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
  61. One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's...
  62. Only in a novel are all things given full play.
  63. Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
  64. Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
  65. People always make war when they say they love peace.
  66. Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
  67. Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with...
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  70. Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the...
  71. Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art...
  72. So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest...
  73. The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip...
  74. The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
  75. The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of...
  76. The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
  77. The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
  78. The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality,...
  79. The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
  80. The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The...
  81. The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
  82. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and...
  83. The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting,...
  84. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
  85. The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on...
  86. The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going...
  87. The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything...
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  90. The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that...
  91. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or...
  92. The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
  93. The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent...
  94. The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't...
  95. The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he...
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  98. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for...
  99. There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that...
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  102. This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate...
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  104. Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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  106. When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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