"Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns."

-- Anita Brookner

#Life Quotes #Play Quotes #Thorns Quotes

“The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.”
“Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.”
“I donâ€™t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, yâ€™know? Iâ€™ve designed it that way.”
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

Source : Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2513, Delphi Classics
“If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.”
“A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning of it; for which, if a stranger, he only demands your friendship; if a brother author, he expects from you a book of yours, which does not sell, in return.”
“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense â€” to fight the government.”
“He who expects not to achieve will never do so.”

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