"You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else"

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Source : "Ed Harris’ ‘Westworld’ Turn Was A Perfect Late-Career Move For One of Our Best Actors - Career Watch" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. June 05, 2017.

Ed Harris

“I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.”
“Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.”
“If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.”
“It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.”
“The problem with leftism as a vice is that everyone else is stuck with the hangover.”
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
“There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.”

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