"All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?"

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Source : Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

Buster Keaton

#Dope Quotes #Looks Quotes #Poor Quotes

“I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession”
“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”
“I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'”
“We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.”
“There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan”
“Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.”
“I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.”

Source : Deborah Wiles (2016). “Countdown”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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