"Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called â€˜erotika pathemataâ€™ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering."

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Marina Warner

#Romance Quotes #Greek Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.”

Source : "Detox Diets: The Scary New Skinny" by Janelle Brown, www.glamour.com. July 14, 2009.
“Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.”
“The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.”
“A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.”
“It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.”
“I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.”
“If in heroic conduct, whether of warriors, philosophers or scientists, we see what is of essential nature, then we know that all heroism groups itself around a supreme value. This has always been the idea of honour, spiritual and mental. But the idea of honour, like its corporeal representatives, was involved in a war of soul and spirit against the values represented by alien races or the offspring of racial chaos.”

Source : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.
“Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.”

Source : "The Still Centre (The Uncreating Chaos)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1939.

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