"When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached."

-- Amy Hempel

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.”

Source : Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"
“My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.”
“I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.”
“One should never say never.”
“At the heart of all things is love.”
“The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.”
“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.”

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