Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939
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Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936