"I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off."

-- Ned Vizzini

#People Quotes #Acting Quotes #Today Quotes

“Longing performs all things”
“I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.”
“It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.”
“Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.”
“The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase his authority - rather, the contrary. This was something Brezhnev and Chernenko did not understand. In all, Stalin had about as many decorations as, say, Mekhlis, and four or five times fewer than Brezhnev”
“I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.”
“Writing is the art of applying the ***** to the seat.”
“To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Nicoletta Lanciano (2005). “Hadrian's villa: between heaven and earth : a tour with Marguerite Yourcenar”

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