"To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence."

-- Anna Kavan

#Thinking Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Secret Quotes

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
“How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.”
“Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.”
“When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.”
“We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.”
“It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.”
“Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The best reason to go to the movies is to be with other people. Eating the popcorn, being with other people you don't know.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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