"Dead men tell no tales, Mary."

--

Daphne du Maurier

#Men Quotes #Mary Quotes #Tales Quotes

“We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”
“The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.157, Crown
“I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.”
“I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.”
“You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.”
“All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.”
“I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.”

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