Monica Furlong quotes
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“What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.”
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“resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.”
-- Monica FurlongSource : Monica Furlong (1986). “Genuine fake: a biography of Alan Watts”, Vintage
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“If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.”
-- Monica FurlongSource : Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”
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“What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.”
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“It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.”
-- Monica FurlongSource : Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”
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Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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Source : Emanuel Lasker (1965). “Common Sense in Chess”, p.131, Courier Corporation
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“So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.”
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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.76, Pan Macmillan
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