“Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.”
― If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
― If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
“Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.”
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“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.”
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
― A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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