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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art.

The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn’t let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Author : Casey Affleck

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Author : George Eliot

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Author : Voltaire

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Author : Victor Hugo

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Author : Blaise Pascal

God may be subtle, but he isn’t plain mean.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.

Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Author : Victor Hugo

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher’s mound or you can be in the catcher’s position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

Author : Rahm Emanuel

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Author : Blaise Pascal

When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

Author : S. E. Hinton

Man is what he reads.

Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Author : Cesar Chavez

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Author : Mark Twain

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Author : Voltaire

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Author : Voltaire

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Author : Sigmund Freud