"We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?"

-- Michael Herr

#War Quotes #Long Quotes #Finals Quotes

“I had a very modest upbringing.”

Source : "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 2". Interview, collider.com. December 30, 2011.
“I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.”
“Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.”
“Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.20, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
“I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.”
“If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.”
“Iâ€™ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly”
“At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money”

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