"There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Mean Quotes #Way Quotes #Facts Quotes

“A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.”
“A joke's a very serious thing.”

Source : 'The Ghost' (1763) bk. 4, l. 1386
“I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.”
“We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.”
“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.”
“It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
“The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.
“A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.”

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