"Without tact you can learn nothing."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

“Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.”

Source : David Richo (2008). “The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them”, p.179, Shambhala Publications
“As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.”
“Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.”
“I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.”
“Writing is harder than anything else; at least starting to write is.”
“Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.”
“Dames lie about anything - just for practice.”
“I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist, I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base." Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers, Bumped into my high school teachers, They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers. Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features. I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.”

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