"My predictions are notably inaccurate"

-- Robert Caro

#Predictions Quotes

“I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.”
“When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson, “Two Truths”
“Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.”
“No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.”
“I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.”
“It's kind of boring to me if teams never throw the ball.”
“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
“First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.”

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