"For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet."

-- Peter Wessel Zapffe

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“Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”

Source : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.
“If they want a photograph, then just take it.”

Source : "Harris Online", www.harrisonline.com. October 4, 1997.
“Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.”
“Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.”
“There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.”
“The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away”
“I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work.”
“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

Source : Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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