Barbara Myerhoff quotes
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“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”
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“The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.”
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“All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.”
Source : "Aaliyah Talks About Her Parents And Her Sensuality". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. April 4, 1997.
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Source : "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011.
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