"Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health."

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Source : Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

Sylvia Brownrigg

#Drug Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Tools Quotes

“In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people.”
“My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.”

Source : "Super Bowl Q&A with … Steve Tisch". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 5, 2012.
“For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.”
“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”
“I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.”
“I have some really, really good friends, to whom I'm very close, that I'm not revealing anything to, and that's really hard.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.”
“'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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