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“I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.”

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C. M. Mayo

C. M. Mayo is a journalist, the specific birth and death dates are unknown. more

“One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.”

Ifs World Life Feels Reason Darkness Imagine Extraordinary Storm Imagine That Lightning Noon Inconsequential Darkness At Noon

Book:Elizabeth I: The Novel

Source: Elizabeth I: The Novel

“It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.”

Ifs Support Fate Depends Balance Weight Swings Rope Clinging Ledges

Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.”

Way Body Given Mercy Divorced Guise

Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel

“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”

Heaven Acting Hell Rewards Punishment Scare Bribe Without Hope Heaven Or Hell

Book:The Sparrow

Source: The Sparrow

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