"A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying."

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Source : "Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry". Book by F. R. Leavis, 1936.

F. R. Leavis

#Paradise Quotes #Lost Quotes #Strikes Quotes

“Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.”
“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”
“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.”
“I lead a very active lifestyle. When I am not working, I enjoy snowboarding in winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.”

Source : Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers
“There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.”
“Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.”

Source : Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.164, Ballantine Books
“As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.”

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