"There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?"

-- Leon Uris

#Men Quotes #Names Quotes #Tears Quotes

“I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.”
“Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. October 2004.
“Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."”
“The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.”

Source : Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton
“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.”
“I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.”
“The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.”
“You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.”

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