"Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself."

-- Felix Dennis

#Cutting Quotes #Force Quotes

“Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.”
“Cath ran her fingers along the cover, over the raised gold type. Then someone else ran right into her, pushing the book into Cath's chest. Pushing two books into her chest. Cath looked up just as Wren threw an arm around her. "They're both crying," Cath heard Reagan say. "I can't even watch." Cath freed an arm to wrap around her sister. "I can't believe it's really over," she whispered. Wren held her tight and shook her head. She really was crying, too. "Don't be so melodramatic, Cath," Wren laughed hoarsely. "It's never over... It's Simon.”
“The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.”
“I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.”
“Where laws end, tyranny begins.”

Source : William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387
“I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.”
“Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.”
“I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.”

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