"It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant."

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Lillian Hellman

#Country Quotes #World Quotes #May Quotes

“For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.”
“A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.”
“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
“It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, â€œIâ€™ve wasted it!â€ then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be Godâ€™s passion.”
“Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.”
“Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.”
“There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.”

Source : "Rupert bared". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2002.
“I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.”

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