“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 165 of 313
“Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.”
“Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.”
“My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.”
“I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, 'I'm not going any more. It's a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School's getting in the way.' It freaked her out.”
“I want nothing but death.”
“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
“From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.”
“Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.”
“I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.”
“People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.”
“The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.”
“I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.”
“The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.”
“You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...”
“Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife”
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.”
“Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.”
“Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]”
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”