"Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character."

-- Donald Hall

#Character Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Anxious Quotes

“[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.”
“I am always trying to convey something that canâ€™t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”
“There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?”
“Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.”
“One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.”
“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
“The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.”
“And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.”

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