“I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.”
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“Again, I call to mind that distant moment in [the prison at] Hermanice when on a hot, cloudless summer day, I sat on a pile of rusty iron and gazed into the crown of an enormous tree that stretched, with dignified repose, up and over all the fences, wires, bars and watchtowers that separated me from it. As I watched the imperceptible trembling of its leaves against an endless sky, I was overcome by a sensation that is difficult to describe: all at once, I seemed to rise above all the coordinates of my momentary existence in the world into a kind of state outside time in which all the beautiful things I had ever seen and experienced existed in a total “co-present”; I felt a sense of reconciliation, indeed of an almost gentle consent to the inevitable course of things as revealed to me now, and this combined with a carefree determination to face what had to be faced. A profound amazement at the sovereignty of Being became a dizzying sensation of tumbling endlessly into the abyss of its mystery; an unbounded joy at being alive, at having been given the chance to live through all I have lived through, and at the fact that everything has a deep and obvious meaning— this joy formed a strange alliance in me with a vague horror at the inapprehensibility and unattainability of everything I was so close to in that moment, standing at the very “edge of the finite”; I was flooded with a sense of ultimate happiness and harmony with the world and with myself, with that moment, with all the moments I could call up, and with everything invisible that lies behind it and has meaning. I would even say that I was somehow “struck by love,” though I don’t know precisely for whom or what.”
Source: Vaclav Havel: Or Living in Truth
“George Walker Bush did not want to allow much research, probably sensing that science would do something awkward with the research. But GWB was right about it.”
“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy.” ~ Jon Stewart”
Source: The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
“LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character—the news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media—Jon made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that’s not condescending, it’s not smug. It’s funny, it’s emotional, it’s calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.”
Source: The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
“The question ‘Don’t you remember me?’ is awkward, especially if it was asked by someone you have never known.”
“Ah ! si quelqu'un venait me dire : Sire, vous serez débarrassé de tous vos ennemis à la fois, et demain il n'en restera pas un pour vous reprocher la mort des autres, ah ! alors je ne dis pas !”
Source: La reine Margot, Tome I
“Catherine ne répondit point. Elle tourna lentement son regard vers la tapisserie contre laquelle il était appuyé. Alors elle ramena sur Charles un œil qui voulait dire : Alors, pourquoi vit-il ?
-Il vit... il vit... murmura Charles IX, qui comprenait parfaitement ce regard et qui y répondait, comme on le voit, sans hésitation ; il vit, parce qu'il... est mon parent.”
Source: La reine Margot, Tome I
“Je pense qu'un patrimoine est fondamentalement le résultat d'une dynamique de couple. C'est pourquoi, régime et/ou comptes séparés ou pas, je plaide la fusion de gestion pendant la durée du mariage, et la poire coupée en deux lorsque survient un divorce.”
Source: L'échiquier de la fortune : Mettez la bourse au service de votre patrimoine
“Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.”
Source: Au bonheur des morts