"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls."

-- John Berger

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“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
“Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?”
“I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.”
“The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.”
“We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.”
“The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.”
“Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com

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