"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely."
"Ah, great it is to believe the dream
as we stand in youth by the starry stream;
but a greater thing is to fight life through
and say at the end, the dream is true!"
Edwin Markham
"'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?" Percy Wyndham Lewis
"If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.'" Florence Margaret Smith
"Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it."
"I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about moviemaking, but I couldn't do any worse than this'." Stanley Kubrick
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