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“What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.”
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“Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.”
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“When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.”
Source : Boston Phoenix Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.
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“We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.”
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“Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'”
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“The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the lived past and the anticipated future.”
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“Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.”
Source : Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.
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“No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.”
Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.”
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“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.”
