"I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose."

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Source : Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”

Elinor Wylie

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“The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.”
“A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.”
“There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.”
“As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.”
“Talk in terms of the other person's interests.”
“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

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