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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.
At first it's pretty cool: the limitless fruit of knowledge hanging low in your path. Then you realize it's the only thing to eat around here.
You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
All time is eternal, moving inexorably toward an end which we believe is a result of our actions, but over which our control is mere illusion.
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.
I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.
The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.'
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'
It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by the wayside for a number of years.
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.
Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only.
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.