"If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working."

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Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

Julien Green

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #People Quotes

“I think Julia is defining a new feminism. It's the power of the open heart. And its ok to be sexual.”
“Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.”
“I get to sing a great song called "Proud of your boy" which was by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and they were so hurt when it had to be cut from the film [Aladdin]. They were not happy. For the sake of the film, they had to streamline everything.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.”
“Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.”
“The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends”
“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”
“His art is the health of the artist.”

Source : Harold Clurman (1974). “The divine pastime: theatre essays”

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