"It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!"

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Source : Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

Eugene O'Neill

#Life Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Home Quotes

“Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Miloâ€™s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.”
“.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.”
“At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.”

Source : Frederick H. Evans, Anne Hammond (1992). “Frederick H. Evans: selected texts and bibliography”
“As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.”
“I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.”

Source : Samuel Johnson (écrivain), Hester Lynch Piozzi (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., to which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.302
“Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.”
“The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.”

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