"Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue."

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Patricia Wentworth

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“The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.”
“I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.”
“When thereâ€™s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general â€˜nice to haveâ€™ market.”
“Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.”
“Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
“I did a film about child abuse with the great producer-director Richard Donner, Radio Flyer. Again, I was replacing somebody, but Lorraine Bracco was in it, and they wanted me as the cop in the thing to fall in love with Lorraine, but I said I wouldn't. I mean, I'm a cop, and she's ignoring that her kids are being beaten up by their stepfather. And we had an argument... well, not an argument, but a discussion about it. I said, "I just don't feel right. It's like you're taking everything away from the reality of the movie. Aren't you kind of idealizing this a little bit?”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com
“If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
“Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.”

Source : Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.89, Penguin UK

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