"Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down."

-- Ellen Gilchrist

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.”
“Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left behind by their father. The other was about someone who knew that her parent had had problems of mental illness [and that] she might be going through the same thing.”
“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”
“There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now to find the answer - your answer; not my answer - because the question is born out of the assumption, the belief, that there is something to continue after death.”
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
“Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.”

Source : "Debi Mazar’s History of New York". Interview with Zac Posen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2015.
“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.”

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