"In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time."

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Source : Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

Libba Bray

#Art Quotes #Pain Quotes #Regret Quotes

“People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.”
“I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.”

Source : 'Lines on his Pension'; attributed
“I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“I had a gypsy upbringing, so I moved around all over the place and can't remember a street I grew up on.”
“I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence.”
“The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.”
“I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is not served when reporters prize trepidation and propriety over the robust journalistic duty to tell the whole story.”

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