"They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings."

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Source : John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press

John Ford

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“Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead”
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,â€™ Holly advised him. â€˜That was Docâ€™s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you canâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. Thatâ€™s how youâ€™ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. Youâ€™ll end up looking at the sky.”
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
“My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
“Any river is really the summation of the whole valley. To think of it as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part.”
“Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of if it'll work; it's a matter of when.”
“The mind usually says, â€œI know, I know, I know.â€ But the â€œdonâ€™t-know mindâ€ is where wisdom lives.”

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