"Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me."

-- Ingmar Bergman

#Lying Quotes #Play Quotes #Voice Quotes

“It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.”

Source : "Scene Last Night: Schwarzman, Peterson, Icahn, Morrison, Roth" by Amanda Gordon, www.bloomberg.com. May 24, 2011.
“A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.”
“Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.”
“In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish that is their strength.”
“It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.”
“Elderly people are like plants. Whereas some go to seed, or to pot, others blossom in the most wonderful ways. I believe beauty competitions should be held only for people over seventy years of age. When we are young, we have the face and figure God gave us. We did nothing to earn our good looks. But as we get older, character becomes etched on our face. Beautiful old people are works of art. Like a white candle in a holy place, so it the beauty of an aged face.”
“Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.”
“One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.”

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