"Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton..."

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Source : Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

Annie Proulx

#Party Quotes #Games Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.”
“It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience. Sometimes when they applaud if I'm still playing it's not as good, but there's always a way around it. Actually the applause gives me a little rest and chance to stretch, too.”
“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”
“I believe the middle class game is dead.”
“We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.”

Source : Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK
“What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)”
“I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.”

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