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Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

“For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky, born on February 17, 1929, is a renowned Chilean filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. His filmography is known for its unique artistic style and profound philosophical insights. more

“We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)”

People World Matter Stories Faces Subjects Century Silent Genocide Quarters Depressing Subject Matter

Book:Night

Source: Night

“the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.”

Stories Harder Standing Out

Author:Donald Miller

“They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)”

People Humans Pain Human Beings Loss Illusion Indignity Pain And Loss Excruciating Pain

Author:Elie Wiesel

“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)”

Ifs Needs Believe Heart Mean Stories Happens Care Pain Broken Honor Thousand Decided Infinite Retelling

Book:Night

Source: Night

“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.”

Giving Action Political Purpose Choices Courses Magic Economic Alternatives Spectrum Physical Strength

Book:Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files

Source: Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files

“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.”

Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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