"She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself."

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Source : Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.97, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Michael Cunningham

#Literature Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?”
“It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
“Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.”
“Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.”

Source : Roger Housden (2014). “Keeping the Faith Without a Religion”, p.56, Sounds True
“I understand that in the UK there have already been 10,000 complaints from viewers about these remarks, which people see, rightly, as offensive. I want Britain to be seen as a country of fairness and tolerance. Anything detracting from this I condemn.”
“'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'”
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”
“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”

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