"She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to know. I promise, no one will ask you to change."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Sweet Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mad Quotes

“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.”
“The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.”
“It's completely inappropriate. It's not journalism. It's opinion.”
“When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?”
“Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.”
“I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor,”

Source : "Willie Aames: Financial Ruin Led To Sleeping Under Bushes". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?”
“One must take what comes, with laughter.”

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