"When night falls people become as lonely as snowflakes floating down from a gray city sky. Now and again we fall past a streetlamp and are visible, a brief moment apart, REAL-- we can be seen. We exist. Then we vanish into the gray darkness and the earth draws us to it."

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Source : Erik Fosnes Hansen (1996). “Psalm at Journey's End”, p.160, Macmillan

Erik Fosnes Hansen

#Lonely Quotes #Real Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”
“Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.”
“I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's not enough to be right because he [Rick Perry] is right, you got to be persuasively right, got to be intellectually agile, and I think he can do it.”
“Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's imprisoned by his success; there is a common thread to all these characters. I don't know why I'm particularly drawn to it. It's been pointed out to me, and I don't understand it myself.”
“If you look at any of the greats, from people like Paul Newman and Robert Redford to, you know, Brad Pitt - to get any of the kinds of roles like the ones that they've gotten, or just to be a part of any of the kinds of movies they've made, would be the end-all for me.”
“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me”
“It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.”

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