#fin

I won a great giant slalom in Japan last week, and it gave me momentum for this final part of the season. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#gave #giant #great #i #japan

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cannot #children #divorce #finally #first

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#consciousness #even #exacerbate #final #intensify

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#each #exclusively #his #humanity #individuals

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#better #end #face #find #journey

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#confined #everything #humdrum #labored #limited

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#cinema #expressing #expression #find #little

From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#any #find #i #left #life

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#become #books #came #change #come