"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."

-- Carl Sagan

#Existentialism Quotes #Benign Quotes #Indifferent Quotes

“Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.”
“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
“I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.”
“In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.”
“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder evenâ€”the French air clears up the brain and does goodâ€”a world of good.”
“I've worked hard to remember it...The problem is I'm not sure what's real memory and what's my brain filling in details, like a guy whose heart stops and he thinks he sees a bright light. Except I'm sure of my bright light.”
“People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.”

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