"I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty."

-- Maggie Smith

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?”
“You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.”

Source : "Faye Dunaway: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.
“All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”
“With the exception of women, there is nothing on earth so agreeable or necessary to the comfort of man as the dog.”

Source : Edward Jesse (1860). “Lectures on Natural History: Delivered at the "Fishermen's Home," Brighton”, p.47
“When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.”
“One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real.”
“An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.”
“...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.84, Vintage

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