„I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.“
Quelle: A Secret Affair
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Welsh-Canadian novelist 1944Ähnliche Zitate
— John Steinbeck, buch East of Eden
Variante: My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.
Quelle: East of Eden
„I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble“
— Rudyard Kipling English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865 - 1936
— Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet
Mīrābāī, in Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience http://books.google.co.in/books?id=HTepAfJv_6YC&pg=PA351, p. 351
Variante: O my companion, worldly comfort is illusion,
As soon you get it, it goes.
I have chosen the indestructible for my refuge,
Him whom the snake of death will not devour.
My beloved dwells in my heart all day,
I have actually seen that abode of joy.
Meera's lord is Hari, the indestructible.
My lord, I have taken refuge with you, your maidservant.
— Janeane Garofalo comedian, actress, political activist, writer 1964
standup performance accessible through .WAV files available on the Internet[citation needed]
Standup routines
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
„I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.“
— Wallace Stevens American poet 1879 - 1955
As quoted in Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002) by by Bart Eeckhout Ch. 12 "Poeticizing Epistemology", p. 268
„The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies“
— Jodi Picoult, buch Keeping Faith
Quelle: Keeping Faith
„The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.“
— Willa Cather, buch The Professor's House
Book I, Ch. 8
The Professor's House (1925)
„Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.“
— Francis Bacon English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author 1561 - 1626
„Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.“
— Man Ray American artist and photographer 1890 - 1976
As quoted in Photographers on Photography : A Critical Anthology (1966) by Nathan Lyons, p. 80 <!-- "Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934" MAN RAY, Modern Photography, November 1957, p. 85. THE AGE OF LIGHT 1934 Preface to Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934, Paris, Hartford, James T. Soby ??? -->
Kontext: Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how", while others of a more curious nature will ask "why". Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
„I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.“
— Gillian Flynn, buch Sharp Objects
Quelle: Sharp Objects
— Bryan Stevenson American lawyer, social reformer and academic 1959
We need to talk about an injustice https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice|
