"Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one."

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Dashiell Hammett

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.”

Source : Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press
“Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.128, Hachette UK
“Jude's rule number five: Never get to close to anyone or anything that you can't walk away at a moment's notice if you have to. When you have to.”
“From as early as I can remember, I wanted to have something to do with the acting business. I was a TV junkie as a kid and I think, because I grew up in a small town where I couldn't imagine myself staying there and couldn't see myself being any of the people that I was surrounded by in this town, I just knew that I wanted a different kind of a life, but I didn't know what that meant and I didn't know how.”
“I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.”
“Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.”
“It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.”

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