"Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Brilliant Quotes #Youth Quotes #Bitter Quotes

“Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?”
“Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.”
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.”
“Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.”
“Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.”
“I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.”

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