"Life is full of alternatives but no choice."

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Source : Patrick White (2011). “The Aunt's Story”, p.137, Random House

Patrick White

#Choices Quotes #Alternatives Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most of what's in your own life, hopefully, is exactly that. Friendship and love and passion for movies and cartoons and comic books, whatever it is that you love. Most of the way we live our lives involves looking for pleasure and beauty and happiness and affection. Real artists don't use reflexive clichés about things. It's about honoring the reality of people's lives, which defies conventions and clichés and expectations. People are interesting, period.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond.”
“Prosperity and security are ours in heaven. We will live in peace and safety.”
“Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?”
“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.”
“It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.”
“I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.”

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