"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more."

-- John Updike

#Wickedness Quotes #Guts Quotes

“When a window closes another one opens”
“Confidence is essential, but ego is not.”

Source : "Sam Mendes’s 25 Rules for Directors". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. March 11, 2014.
“To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?”
“Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up inside or hurt anyone.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.”

Source : Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”
“The house of every one is to him as his castle.”

Source : Semayne's Case (1603)
“I don't think I've ever been face to face with pure evil, so I don't think I've ever seen it with my own eyes. But I do understand human frailty and I do understand the capacity of people to be intermittently noble and virtuous and fallible.”
“If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.”

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