"Your love is from the imagination, not the heart."

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Source : Frances Brooke (1777). “The History of Emily Montague”, p.25

Frances Brooke

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“There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.”
“Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.”
“I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
“The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.”
“Acting for screen is very different from acting on stage, and then obviously when you dance... everything is a physical embodiment. But the discipline is the same approach. You have to take both things seriously; nothing well-crafted is by mistake.”
“I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.”
“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”
“The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

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