"These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared."

-- Jim Crace

#Stories Quotes

“Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.”
“[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.”
“Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.”
“I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press
“I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater.”
“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”
“I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.”

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