"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

-- Cato the Elder

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“You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.”

Source : "What Jacqueline Bisset Really Said During Her Acceptance Speech" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. January 12, 2014.
“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”
“Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.”
“We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.”
“Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.”
“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.”
“The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.”
“From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.”

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