Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.
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Unknown
...the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be "protected" from...
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Robin R. Meyers
History never repeats itself, historians do.
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Lee Benson
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By Sydney Smith
The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these...
No furniture is so charming as books.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
