"A lot of acting is private time."

-- Al Pacino

“We do have responsibilities, as we live on this planet. It is our one and only home, which we are obligated to protect, to keep as beautiful and harmonious as it is. It is really for everyone to do so, including you and me.”
“I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.”

Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.4, PublicAffairs
“Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.”

Source : Song: Better Things
“Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.”
“The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August”
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Dec 31, 2013
“Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.”
“In the New World, happiness is enforced.”

Source : Peter Porter (1989). “A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989”, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press

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