Molly Haskell Quotes

#1. There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

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#2. How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. One of the attributes of love ... is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

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#4. 1979. Coming to America after a childhood spent in the Soviet Union is equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor.

Gary Shteyngart

#5. Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

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#6. I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#7. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

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#8. The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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#9. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

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#10. As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

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#11. [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

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#12. Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

Earl Nightingale

#13. Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

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#14. I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

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#15. Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

Margaret Mead

#16. (Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

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#17. The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

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#18. For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

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#19. The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

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#20. Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

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#21. The more you read, the more you will love to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Elias Hicks

#23. Women couldn't identify with her and didn't support her.

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#24. Intern needed: Must be 21 with 30 years of experience.

Unknown

#25. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

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#26. The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.

Todd Tiahrt

#27. But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

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#28. I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Sue Townsend

#29. Love, prayer and miracles go hand in hand. Every great master who has come forth to teach humanity has spoken of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#30. There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

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#31. American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

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