"Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed."

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Source : Ellen Goodman (2010). “Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

Ellen Goodman

#Loss Quotes #Age Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I couldn't help shaking my head as I looked at him. Ian slept like a baby every morning - well, a baby who continually kept one hand down his pants.”
“Nothing â€” the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”
“I know that Madonna is not a first-time filmmaker, but I have worked with a lot of first time filmmakers and I have worked with a lot of inexperienced film directors so that never has particularly worried me - I find it quite exciting - but I have never worked with a director who has had so little experience of directing who was so prepared.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.”
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
“What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.”
“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”
“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Source : Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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