"When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;"

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Source : 'The Dong with a Luminous Nose' (1871)

Edward Lear

#Night Quotes #Long Quotes #Silence Quotes

“The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.”
“What will your children remember? We can change the world inside our own houses. Take the gift of this moment and make something beautiful of it. Few worthwhile experiences just happen; memories are made on purpose.”
“I've been hooked on films ever since I can remember renting VHS tapes. But who got me hooked? I think life did. There wasn't a person or a mentor that got me hooked. I think it was the films themselves that influenced me. A specific memory that comes to mind is watching 'Goodfellas' when I was 12 and thought Robert De Niro looked so cool sitting at the bar smoking a cigarette and contemplating his next "move". I actually would copy his faces gestures and try and get into his mind frame. I would borrow mad dad's clothes and pretend I was a Mobster. So I guess I have to thank Robert DeNiro.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.454, Princeton University Press
“Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the exercise of political and social authority, the more it is generated for the purpose of an abstract vote that amounts to no more than an act of acclamation within a public sphere temporarily manufactured for show or manipulation.”
“That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.”
“Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.”
“The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.”

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