"How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make...what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close."

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Source : George Simon Kaufman, Moss Hart (1980). “Three Plays”, p.203, Grove Press

Moss Hart

#Looks Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Lucky Quotes

“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”
“There was a stately drama writ By the hand that peopled the earth and air, And set the stars in the infinite, And made night gorgeous and morning fair; And all that had sense to reason knew That bloody drama must be gone through. Some sat and watched how the action veered-- Waited, profited, trembled, cheered-- We saw not clearly nor understood, But yielding ourselves to the masterhand, Each in his part as best he could, We played it through as the author planned.”

Source : Alan Seeger, “The Hosts”
“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”
“The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.”
“The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.”
“Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 28, 2012.
“I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.”
“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”

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