Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous. - Tom Stoppard - Quotesmemo.com

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Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

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Tom Stoppard

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

Autobiography, Fiction, Form, Forms, Gratuitous

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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

Embarks, Issues, Kind, Moral, Rebuttal, Refutation

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field. . . Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Faces, Fields, Head, Incredible, Know, Nodding

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

Honest, Honesty, Quotable, Truth, Witty

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Baby, Best Love, Love, Love Is, Somebody, Worst

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Stanley Cavell

Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

Betrayal, Communication, Examination, Inhabitant, Manifested, Self

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

Dark, Eye, Knowing, Knowledge, Minds

Mario Andretti

Mario Andretti

I don't have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there's a lot of risk to it.

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Sheldon Richman

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

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Ram Dass

Ram Dass

Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

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