"Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe."

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Barbara Holland

#Home Quotes #Joy Quotes #Rats Quotes

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

Source : Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.207, Ballantine Books
“And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself give up. And that's something I didn't know about myself before - that I have such dogged determination and strength. That I can be completely focused on a goal and work long past what I thought my endurance was, when I have to.”
“I don't think that we're limiting talent. I think if I could reverse the clock a little bit, there would have been more kind coverage among female journalists for what I was doing.”
“As we grow up we learn that even the person that wasnt supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. Youll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. Youll fight with your best friend. Youll blame a new love for things an old one did. Youll cry because time is passing too fast, and youll eventually lose someone you love, so take many pictures, laugh too much and love like youve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is one minute of happiness youll never get back.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.”

Source : "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.
“With Christ as the center of your life, you will never be disappointed.”
“When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Being busy does not always mean real work.”

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