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• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

  Jerome Bruner

  Art, Real, Effort

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.

  Clayton Moore

  Sky, White, Black

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. February 4, 1985.

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• The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Helping, Morality

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• We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks.

  Richard Bach

  Night, Years, Yesterday

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• Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

  Dennis Potter

  Disguise, Discourse, Materials

  Dennis Potter (1994). “Waiting for the Boat: On Television”, GuildAmerica Books

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• I wonder sometimes, though, if we intentionally or just unknowingly mask the beauty of God in the gospel by minimizing his various attributes.

  David Platt

  Sometimes, Wonder, Attributes

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• The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Smell, Holocaust, Naked

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• If you really want a life which has no boredom in it, drop all masks, be true. Sometimes it will be difficult, I know, but it is worth it. Be true.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Want, Sometimes

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• No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

  Ron Luciano

  Running, Brother, Umpires

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• Suicide attacks are the actions of losers who have nothing left to lose. In this case, Islam serves as a mask, a cover for desperation and nihilism, but not for religion.

  Walter Kasper

  Suicide, Islam, Nihilism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.

  Eric Holmes

  Powerful, Cities, Numbers

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• I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's happening in the world, and I want to have it touch me in a way that I can do something, my little part like that, and have it somehow translate.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Looks, World

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

  Jenji Kohan

  Order, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Pain, Relief, Income

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• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

  Terence McKenna

  Democratic Ideals, People, Might

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• I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

  Michael Jackson

  Kings, Real, Kids

  Source: www.today.com

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• I'm like the female version of George Clooney in 'Up in the Air.' I have to have an eye mask, and Amore Pacific has this cream face mask that's moisturizing. Moisture is so important in the stuffy, dry air on a plane.

  Nina Dobrev

  Eye, Air, Important

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• Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

  William H. Whyte

  Differences, Goal, Acquiescence

  William H. Whyte (2013). “The Organization Man”, p.10, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• We cannot let colorblindness become myopia which masks the reality that many "created equal" have been treated within our lifetimes as inferior both by the law and by their fellow citizens.

  William J. Brennan

  Reality, Law, Citizens

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• We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  People, Approval, Needs

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• No one is ever better off with dictators but there comes a time you know, when you're on an airplane, they always say, "in case of an emergency oxygen masks will drop down. Put yours on first and then administer help to your neighbor." We need oxygen right now.

  Benjamin Carson

  Airplane, Oxygen, Needs

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

  Edwidge Danticat

  Glasses, People, Littles

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Beautiful, Lying, Creativity

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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