"Virtue is not hereditary."

-- Thomas Paine

“Isolation breeds conceit.”
“I have done a few roles that I've never watched, and if I happen to be flicking through channels and one pops up, I quickly move on. It's hard enough to sustain some self confidence without being reminded of things we'd rather not revisit but, in the end, it comes with the territory.”
“There's nothing like losing yourself in someone else's troubles to make you forget your own.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.243, Macmillan
“I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.”

Source : "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.
“There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.”
“By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.”
“No one is sanctified except him who is united to the Church.”
“The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.”

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