"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Waiting Quotes #Dying Quotes #Longing Quotes

“No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.”

Source : "Anthony Minghella: Truly, madly, deeply missed" by Stephanie Busari, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.
“Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given the choice: as a boy and as a man. The boy chose safety, the man chooses suffering. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jack Lewis". "Shadowlands", www.imdb.com. December 25, 1993.
“I'd just as soon freeze to death.”
“Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.”
“I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.”
“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”
“To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.75, ETT Imprint
“Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!”

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