"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
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"Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way."
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"Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music."
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"Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."
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"Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding."
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"In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite."
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"I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film."
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"Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast."
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"Ah just act the way ah feel."
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"There are many who feel consciously hopeful and unconsciously hopeless, and there are few for whom it is the other way around."
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"Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood."
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"How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
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"I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day."
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"Abraham: You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought."
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"To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect."
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"Certain songs just feel a way that's hard to put into words and it's not happy and it's also not really sad but I couldn't say what it is"
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"Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)"
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"there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine."
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"There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas."
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"The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others we will do nothing to benefit ourselves."
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