"If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!"

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Knives Quotes #Poison Quotes #Arson Quotes

“In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.”
“I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.”
“How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?”

Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.5, Anchor
“Older boys often asked me to teach them â€œsome bad words in your languageâ€. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means â€œI'm an idiotâ€. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling â€œI'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!â€. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.34, Random House
“A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."”
“Writing is a job: you must show up.”
“There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.”

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