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Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#equally #gratify #laboratory #mankind #modern

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#approaching #arriving #departing #ever #farther

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fancies #gain #human #human experience #lose

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#believe #ever #nations #races #ready

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#come #feature #feet #grown #hands

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #ceased #concern #course #imagine

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#anything #apologized #colon #curse #ebert

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#constantly #done #enjoy #feel #feel good