"I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals ...."

-- Gertrude Bell

#Europe Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Charming Quotes

“I don't give investment advice.”
“In the end, many of his more militant colleagues began to feel that [Ho Chi Minh's] tendency to compromise, and his reluctance to confront the enemy directly, was a sign of weakness. The decision to confront the United States in 1963-1965 was a tacit recognition that Ho's approach had failed.”
“And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.”
“The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.”
“I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.”
“Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.”
“Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not from a wealthy family, and when you come from those circumstances, doing art isn't really an option.”

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“So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.”

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