"Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment."

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Source : Philip Guedalla (1930). “Independence Day: A Sketchbook”

Philip Guedalla

#Men Quotes #Littles Quotes #Chemicals Quotes

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”
“And we came forth to contemplate the stars.”
“The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.”
“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”
“Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects”
“I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.”
“Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.”
“He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret”

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