"Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way."

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Thomas Gray

#Life Quotes #Way Quotes

“From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you. From the moment we kissed I couldn't stop kissing you. And from the moment we shared our hopes, fears and insecurities I couldn't stop loving you.”
“As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.”
“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.”
“This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.”
“My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.1, Wordsworth Editions
“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
“One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.”

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