"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."

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Source : "His Vampires Do a Lot More Than Just Suck". Interview with Paula Guran, darkecho.com. June 1999.

Brian Lumley

#Realizing Quotes

“Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.”
“Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.”
“I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.”
“I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”

Source : As quoted in an interview "Man Ray: Photographer" published in Camera, edited by Philippe Sers, 1981.
“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.”

Source : E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社
“When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel. The author is aware that there's a certain amount of information she/he has to provide in order to satisfy the reader, knowing that she/he has set something up that must be paid off, but this payment must be made while maintaining fidelity to the characters.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.”
“We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.76, Vintage

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