"It couldn't last of course. They both knew it. Not the evening, Not the holiday."

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Source : Elizabeth Noble (2011). “When You Were Mine: A Novel”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

Elizabeth Noble

#Crush Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of passion and help them find better ways of coping. Because about 50 percent of people with addiction have a preexisting mental illness, about two-thirds have had some type of severe trauma during childhood, and they are not using to the point where they're risking their lives because it's fun. They're doing something to help them cope.”
“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”
“Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'”
“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”
“When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.”
“acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.”
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
“Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.”

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