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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy… If it meant that, I did not want it.
Emma Goldman
Often misquoted as some variation of “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
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“I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few.”
William Morris
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I see my recent desire to acquire The Strawberry Thief-print rugs, and cover our big living room walls with a Morris floral is entirely justified on many levels.
That quotation is as wonderful and gorgeous as his artwork.
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I think I may have found your ideal football shirt
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Otto Sander and Horst Buchholz in Faraway, So Close! (1993)
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From “Deconstructing Harry”:
“All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.”
“Between air conditioning and the Pope, I chose air conditioning.”
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
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“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”
–Gwendolyn Brooks
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
– Peter Clemenza
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Great ad-lib at the end there by actor Castellano. 
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Are bon mots allowed?
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“Don’t mop under the psycho.”
— Crow T. Robot
A funny line, to be sure, but I have also found it to be very good advice on more than one occasion. And on such occasions it is also good to laugh.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
-James Baldwin
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Mais oui, mon cher!
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We console ourselves with the flesh
for all the iniquities in the world.
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
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Nice one.
And I’m reminded of her also writing:
We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.
Tuns out she credited the Talmud in the same breath, and that many others had also said as much:
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Yes. The promise of endings there.
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It’s just peer pressure. From dead people.
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