"Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer."

-- Peter Corris

#Flawless Quotes #Kind Quotes #Periods Quotes

“Life is simply a vacation from the infinite”
“Well, I have chlamydia. Thanks for this, Mom. Good class.”
“Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.”

Source : John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books
“I love when I teach my son a good lesson. But I love it even more when he teaches me.”
“It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.”

Source : "Interview: Michael Dorn On His History With TNG & DS9, Nemesis, the 2009 Star Trek & more". Interview with Henning Koonert, trekmovie.com. December 3, 2010.
“The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.”
“There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.”

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