“Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.”
“There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”
“I'm getting more and more into Chinese art and Japanese, some of those scroll paintings are amazing. You follow the change of the seasons. It's really something. These guys were great masters and of course the use of space.”
“You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.”
“Too much virtue can be criminal.”
“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
“The last word always belongs to the audience... that blessed connection... that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on dark nights when the wind blows. On the other hand there is no way of ever knowing when one steps out into that circle, if the connection will be made. The promise is there, the hope is there, but no certainty whatsoever. Which is, I suppose, the attraction. That connection, when it happens, is magic. When it doesn't... Turn out the lights.”
Source : "Ruth Cracknell: a biased memoir".
“Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.”
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