I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.
Without Satan, no Christ.
Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.
To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.
I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.