"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."

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Source : "Chopin". Book by George Richard Marek, Arthur Maling and Maria Gordon-Smith, 1978.

Frederic Chopin

#Life Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Wish Quotes

“The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.”
“Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of manâ€™s inhumanity to man.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
“Ive always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.”
“How we treat our invalids - our mad, our physically or mentally compromised family members - does tell you something about who we are politically, historically, culturally.”
“When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.”
“Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.”
“I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.”
“I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.”

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