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«You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison»
Author: Bronislaw Malinowski
| About:
Life,
Women
| Keywords:
forge, monasteries, monastery, signature, signatures, utter, vow
«We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
aesthetic, deprave, depraved, depraves, monasteries, monastery, protective, sinkhole, venality
«My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.»
«Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.»
Author: Quentin Crisp
(Author)
| Keywords:
etiquette, go into, inclines, monasteries, monastery, rapidly, trivial
«Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
All Saints, churches, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, geniuses, hostile, monasteries, monastery, of course, of their own, persecute, persecutes, persecuting, routine, routines, saints, seeing, universities, using, youthful
«An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
author, chicken, chicken coop, co-op, coop, duck, monasteries, monastery, Trappist
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